In a reported £100,000 deal, Lincoln Cathedral has closed its doors to the public this week but embraced a Hollywood movie crew filming an adaptation of the hit novel The Da Vinci Code, starring Tom Hanks.
While dismayed worshippers gathered to protest the concept – Dan Brown's controversial thriller has Jesus fathering a child by Mary Magdalene – it was business as usual for the actors, who include Sir Ian McKellan. The cathedral's dean said pragmatically that the book's "a load of tosh" but that the hefty Hollywood handout for five days' filming would come in very useful for repair work to the beautiful medieval building.
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Further south, London is also a hotbed of filming activity at the moment, with Scarlett Johannson being directed by Woody Allen, who's lensing two flicks at the same time, and Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy working on the drama Notes On A Scandal. In the 2006 release, Cate plays a pottery teacher whose affair with one of her students disrupts both her personal and her professional lives. |
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