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July 3, 2001 Actor Dougray Scott tells of his experience in the first film financed by the rock star TAORMINA - Mick Jagger movie producer? "A lovely person. Passionate of the job, very cultured and, you will not believe me, tremendously reserved: he dislikes to be in the spotlight. Mick has a in-depth knowledge of the second world war. This is why he has chosen to make Enigma". This is the word of the actor with whom I had the privilege to discuss the new pursuit of the leader of the Rolling Stones. I spoke with Dougray Scott, the hero in the film by Michael Apted, yesterday at the Taormina Film Festival. The Scotsman has beautiful deep green eyes and athletic physique - the still not forty-years old Scott is up-and-coming, destined to make it in life. For hour much theatre with Sam Mendes has credits (the director of American Beauty and, in the cinema, the role of "the bad" antagonist of Tom Cruise in Mission impossible: 2. Soon we will see it in Ripley's Game the film that Liliana Cavani has just finished filming in Italy. In Enigma a romantic spy-thriller inspired to the novel of Robert Harris and adapted for the screen by Tom Stoppard with the financings of Mick Jagger, the actor is a mathematician assigned to the deciphering of secret codes during the second world war. And, while he is obsessed with an equally enigmatic love, to the inside of the most secret British station Bletchey Park he must ask for the attack to an allied mercantile convoy from part of the nazi submarines, that they have unexpectedly changed their codes of communication. "In order to prepare me for the role", Scott tells, "I studied like a crazy man. We went to Oxford University, I asked to aid some university professors for applied mathematics, I have learned the Morse alphabet and "Enigma" is put me to the machine, that attached to the decyphering of the criptic codes to you... To the fine ones has become enough expert. Much to teach of the use to Jagger, that "Enigma" had bought to the auction just one. The beautiful one in the film is that, while the turns, you are deceived of being much intelligent one and to know to make things special. To the end of the resumptions you have forgotten all". How much present time is in one history acclimatized during the second world war? " A lot, why it is right to remember a rich age of innocence, expectations and adversity. People then were simpler and truer. I would have liked living in that period ". |
