This story of a Russian ballerina captured the attention of Ralph Fiennes 20 years ago and now it's a big screen film
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In the following Q&A, Fiennes who also stars in the drama, shares more about how the story captured him and the process of making the film.There was the biography by Julie Kavanagh, which is meant to be the official biography - I guess it’s approved by the Nureyev Foundation. I’ve known Julie for a few years, and about 20 years ago she sent me the first six chapters of her biography and I never quite knew why.
You must have been thinking right from the start of this project, ‘who will I get to play Nureyev?’ Were you thinking of an actor who could be trained to dance or were you looking for a dancer who could act? I kept circling around it. It was, ‘how do you do this? How do you find Nureyev?’ And it’s sort of impossible and I think I was prepared to fail in that search. I guess I had an overriding view that the story was very strong and that David’s script, as it developed, got stronger and stronger so I sort of thought ‘if I get this right, whoever plays it the story and the character are so strong that the odds are it can work.’ But clearly I needed a strong presence at the centre.
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