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BENJAMIN CARON - Director

Team Deakins

CHAPTER

What Is the Importance of a Real Person?

I just wanted to tell a story about Tommy Cooper literally from a place of loving him because I did love him. And like all the drama I sort of go, I want to get under the skin of who this person is, what makes them tick and the pressures that they were under. David Thrillfall who played Tommy was a chameleon. He was an extraordinary actor who you would look at and you would go, that's not who I would necessarily cast as Tommy Cooper. We spent hours and hours practicing his magic routines and watching, you know, these televised shows and sort of just trying to get some of those mannerisms. But ultimately you are serving the drama. And that

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