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- The Dig includes a romantic subplot involving Rory Lomax and Peggy Piggott, but audiences may be disappointed to learn that it's entirely fictional and not real. Portrayed by Johnny Flynn and Lily James, respectively, the characters collaborate in a real-life archaeological project, one detailed in John Preston's eponymous 2007 novel.
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Feb 3, 2021 · While some have criticised Piggott’s portrayal in Netflix’s adaptation of The Dig as showing her as “something of a sidekick to her older husband, Stuart” others have said it pays homage to...
Feb 27, 2021 · Instead of being portrayed as an experienced and skilled archaeologist, Peggy is played by Lily James as a clumsy sidekick and the romantic interest of a dashing photographer about to go to war.
Feb 5, 2021 · The Dig, the new Netflix film starring Carey Mulligan as Pretty and Ralph Fiennes as Brown, is adapted from a 2016 novel of the same name by John Preston, nephew of Peggy Piggott, a junior ...
Feb 1, 2021 · One element of the Peggy-Rory love subplot which does seem to have some grounding in fact is the sexless marriage between the Piggotts. Peggy filed for divorce from Stuart in the mid-Fifties ...
Feb 1, 2021 · Preston is actually the nephew of Peggy Piggott, one of the excavators of Sutton Hoo, though the author only became aware of the story around 2004, and so The Dig is not derived from her...
Jan 15, 2021 · The novel on which Moira Buffini’s screenplay is based is by Peggy’s nephew, John Preston. He never knew his aunt, because she and his father didn’t get on, and only found out about her...
Jan 30, 2021 · The Dig is promoted as being based on the true story of the great discovery of the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial site, which it is - up to a point.
