"The glamour of it all!" Sanditon cast reveal season 2 filming secrets | Cosmopolitan UK

you're still stubbornly single i see i have a job as a governess i've never had such power hi i'm ben lloyd hughes i play alexander coleman in sanderson hi everyone i'm rose williams and i play charlotte hayward in sanderson hi i'm alexander vlajos and i play charles lockhart in samson and we're talking to

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look charlotte, aren't you excited to be back? Well it was mainly in Bristol a bit in Wales and this time there are a lot of places so it was a lot of big country houses and then some set pieces or interiors that were in a big old airline aircraft hangar in the who had created these amazing sets or the beach pier, um, so it was a combination of purpose built sets and then actual country houses there were a lot more scenes in the first series and this

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and not only do we go to the beach but We are introduced to Harry Park and we go out on location a lot more, which also felt like an expansion to me.

I'm dying to hear your first impressions of Sanderson. I was amazed by the natural beauty of him. I mean, it's always daunting for me to go into. It shouldn't be, but it's like the first day of school syndrome you're introduced to. a show that's already established with regular characters, you know, and um, but I think rose and taylor and chris and all the really returning characters welcome these kind of new, fresh faces coming to us and also everything kind of young people, all kinds of talk, um facing the same challenge of making the second

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as good as possible and having seen the first season and not being in it, I met them all first at the read, which was terrifying for me because it was obviously during a time of covid and I was on a bus from Oxford to London that got stuck in heavy traffic.

It was just that intimidating nightmare scenario you have where you think if I were naked right now it would probably be your worst nightmare. I really felt like I was going to wake up. and it was all a dream that I was so late for this reading that when I got there everyone was waiting for me and then you have to have a covered test where you sit in a waiting room for 10 minutes to wait for your result and I could see everyone tapping their heels wondering where this guy is and I thought, oh, they're always going to think it's a power move, this kind of new actor who decides to be fashionably late on purpose.

How can we attract rich husbands unless we see that the role came here to avoid all that. Certainly what I did was use it as an excuse to watch as many romantic comedies as I could, which I enjoyed doing and, yes, in my free time. I was just trying to watch things that weren't necessarily Jane Austen period dramas, but things that felt relevant to the tone of the character and what we were going for with Sanderson and the character's journey, so if it was movies like The English Patient, uh. I was, you know, I found myself watching Gladiator, I found myself watching The Last Samurai, but other than a wedding planner, just kind of a weird mix of action adventure like the '90s version of Musketeers with a lot of horseback riding and adventures. , but also romantic comedies. with three songs and tension and a clever rep party, I think the costume really helped and the fact that I had a wig, wigs completely transport you, being able to take the wig off at the end of the day and I also have tattoos, so when The tattoo cover comes out remembering or coming back to yourself as a sort of visual marker, um, but I guess the costume and mainly the wig would be my main one, I think not, I think I would back you up with that costume.

The costume always helps, um, I remember that. with charles that they from the time is obviously austin all the boys have hats and canes you know and quite rigid with the lip buttoned um thing and very quickly in my first costume talk with lauren head of costumes I just said "I'm not doing anything of that, I'm breaking all the rules, no hat, no cane, I don't have a button made less, which she said that's breaking a lot of rules and I was like yeah, well, so I was always trying to do it um, but. charles has these amazing ropes, like hugh hefner playboy type sarong ropes that the moment you put them on you feel like it, but in a good way, like a kid's locker and like rosa said I have tattoos like Well, you know, I would like one day to have to go in and get a spray tan and that's it, and just you know, to make me look like I just came from San Trepaine, so you know, or all the little thing is to get rid of this Welsh. pale, white and pale, you know, no one chooses to be a spinster.

Sanderson is quickly becoming the most desirable destination on the South Coast. To be fair, I didn't even watch the first Santa series, which surprised some people a bit. them and obviously I used to tease Rose a little bit about it, but I decided that when I got the role, obviously the tempting thing was to say I'm going to see Santan right now and I actually started. I watched the first 10 minutes of Bridgeton because when my agent called me to tell me there was an audition, I got confused and started watching Bridgeton and then realized it was a different show, but when I got the part I thought maybe I should watch the first Samson series, but then I realized that my character doesn't know anything about all these people, he doesn't know their backstories when he meets them, he doesn't know the gossip and I didn't want that to creep into me as a character or as an actor in no way a secret.

Knowing everything that happened before my character came into the story and also just tonally, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't recreating anything that some actor had been doing before and make sure that it was me and not overcompensating in any way. to say, oh, this person did this so I'm going to do the opposite or I'm going to do the same thing and I'm glad I did, to be honest, it meant it had the kind of freshness of just watching the second, second and third series. like his own things, you can't get back what you had with Sydney.

I think you have a rival. Love is not as simple as you seem to think. I think one thing happened that I didn't think was funny, but there's a scene where Miss Lam and my sister Alison Hayward are riding a kiriko that's essentially like a little carriage on the beach and it shows off in front of the soldiers and there was a scene they filmed where the critic was supposed to crash, but he didn't just do it. It crashed into the cake, it also broke completely, so they couldn't, they couldn't see anything about it, the wheels came off, everything broke completely, so when you work with props that are old, that can sometimes happen.

I mean, I'm sure there are many examples, but that's the one I'll give you today. Mine is us and this is Tina, who never actually made it to the show, which is the damn coaches who seem to be with me and maybe be on it. Do they still make DVDs nowadays, maybe in the DVD extras, but it's me, me and Turner Arthur Parker doing a scene in the parking lot like we just came out naked from a swim in the sea, but it was really hot ? So they had a little pool of water to paddle around in and we had to look like we were soaked and we were soaking wet in front of the camera, but we had to do this at different angles a few times so we had little plastic. glasses of water and we would fill the glasses and everyone would fill them, there were like six people, the makeup artist liked six glasses of water and then they would go and turn around and then they would all just throw water at you and then you would run past the camera and you'd say oh oh my gosh, the water was cool this morning and you were in a parking lot with the makeup artist throwing glasses of warm water at you, that's it, I mean the glamor of it all, hey, hey.

Don't change him for the world, he's unforgivably handsome after all, are you making fun of me? Don't betray your feelings too easily. Certainly horseback riding and dancing were big. I had done some of that before and in different jobs, so it wasn't like that. completely fresh, but as a London city boy from day one, riding a horse will always feel strange and strange, we learned archery, that was great, I really enjoyed doing that, dad, I had it for a month, you know , I had it a month before. We started

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I wish they would go and learn how to be a good ass painter, but no, what did they do, what did I think it was when they told me about it. I thought no, you're kidding, but it was actually serious, I was standing with my arm loose and they had a guy with my shirt sleeve and his arm was going up the sleeve of his shirt swinging. When I saw it, I thought because they cleverly didn't use any of those things. but like some of the close up stuff like but yeah it was, it wasn't my arm painting ah that's really clever I mean that's really clever but you look like a complete idiot because you're standing there I'm just gonna stand there . stand back like you're standing there like this and there's another guy doing all the wonderful work he's coming up to the house in his uniform I'm a mute buffoon in her presence rose um, she was very read in the scripts and she was so on top of everything and the world of Sanderson and I was really passionate about every scene and I had a script that was a kind of bible and it was not the opposite, but each project is slightly different for me, Colburn, as I said before about By not seeing the first series, it is so out there that the less I knew about what the other characters were doing the better and sometimes it can be a bit risky but I always made sure to read the script at some point obviously once but not spend too much time lingering on scenes in the ones I wasn't or knowing too much about what other characters were doing because I realized that Colbin is so external that he wouldn't know this and therefore maybe he shouldn't do it.

Or I'm looking for passion, excitement, you could be filming. My first scene was in episode five that I filmed, which was a real challenge because you're like I didn't even create it. I have to configure this character. The beginning, I mean Rose, you know, I hope I don't. I'm not speaking for you, but the craziest show we would do would be double banking, you know, so we had, we were actually doing one through three and episode four. to six almost at the same time for the second season and you know there are roses in every scene and even if she's not in every scene we talk about her so um and it was like that you don't know holy it was intense would you do it ?

I remember one day you were filming a scene from episode one, then you did a scene from episode six and then you came back, yeah, they were jumping, I guess so, I mean where was I staying? I'm staying in this little apartment in Bristol and I taped pages and pages all over the room as a timeline of the episode, so the night before I was walking around and saying, "Okay, I'm starting on episode 2, scene 33." and then we're rewinding, so I had it." I had to have it visually around me, so like a bunch of taped up pieces of paper and notes around the apartment, which said, in one day I went through a whole relationship, I had six scenes in one day and I started with you.

I know I just painted Georgiana and then and then I potentially flirted with George on the second team in 13 and I kissed Georgiana and then the fourth scene told us that we should run away together and my therapist was, but I feel like it was basically just all day. really intense of an entire relationship that I spent four years in one day. Sometimes it is difficult to get a sense of a man's true character. Love is not as simple as you seem to think. We tried not to film series three and two. at the same time, you filmed in blocks, so you could do episodes one to three with a director in episodes four to six of the second series at the same time and that would end and then you would start the third series, but inevitably there could have been some reshoots and things where you had to go back, so it was certainly disconcerting, it felt like time travel, but to be honest, filming is always like that, it's very rare that you film everything in sequence and that's part of the challenge of filming compared to saying a play thank you for watching catch season 2 on itv you