September 12, 2005
The Independent
Pandora
By Guy Adams

Dougray Scott may live to regret agreeing to play Moses in a new TV drama entitled The Ten Commandments.

The smoothie actor contracted a severe bout of food poisoning and heat-stroke while filming the programme in Morocco last month.

"It struck in the first week and I was in bed for three days," he tells me. "It was 54 degrees while we were filming, so that made things pretty intense."

Those of a religious persuasion might speculate that its a case of divine intervention, since - despite the role he plays - Scott, right, has provocative views on matters theological.

"I was brought up a Protestant but it's such a f***ing boring religion," he adds. "I mean, how can they have got it so wrong for 2000 years?"

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