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The Road Dance is a 2022 film written by Richie Adams and John MacKay. The film is based on a book by the same name, also written by MacKay. The film is set in the early years of World War I on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
- Can You Tell Us A Bit About Murdo’s Character and His Journey in The Film?
- What Were The Biggest Challenges of Filming on The Isle of Lewis?
- How Did You Go About Researching Your Role?
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“Murdo has never really fitted in but he finds a connection with Kirsty, and they dream together of life in America. And then, like war does, when it comes it throws everything off course. An audience might think it’s going one way, and then after the road dance, the whole story changes. What I loved about it as a project is that it is not a stereo...
“The biggest challenge was the weather. I have never experienced anything so dramatic, it changed about four times an hour. We arrived in October, and the weather got increasingly worse each day. Overall, though, the locations were incredible, and the weather certainly adds to the drama of the film. We’d be doing the first take and you’d see these ...
“I had an extensive audition process, all during lockdown. When I was offered the role, I bought the book and found some great descriptions of Murdo. But everything changed when I arrived in the Outer Hebrides, and I realised the enormousness of where we were. I’m from the south of England, so I’m from a very different coastline. This was like a di...
“Working on the set, Gearrannan Blackhouse Village, which is a museum, was amazing. It is a restored village, originally built in the 1800s, that has been lost in time. We filled it up, rethatched the rooves and sprinkled manure all down the side of the road and it became this living village. It was almost like living the film rather than actually ...
“What I love about it as a film is that it is character-driven. It doesn’t rely on the explosions, the pyrotechnics or the special effects. It is rooted in realism, and it is about one story in this world war, that affected so many people in so many different ways across the world. It tells the story of a young girl who was left behind, and how she...
“The road dance itself. We had the whole cast together and we tried to keep spirits up and make it look like a party when a hurricane was coming in! There was also a swimming scene that was crazy to film, it was so cold. I had to just scream and run in. “I loved the war scene too. They cleared an old quarry, and it was so atmospheric to act in. Tha...
“That’s difficult, there really are so many. The cast all went for a day out in Harris, and we saw beautiful waterfalls and scenery. That was the last weekend, when the film had all been wrapped, so we were sad it was coming to an end, and it was good to have a day out altogether. “I also loved working with Hermione Corfield, she led from the front...
May 14, 2022 · “We walked a very thin line between telling the true story – it was based on true events – yet at the same time making it entertaining and not so terribly dark and depressing that no one ...
May 19, 2022 · Based on the best-selling novel by John MacKay, The Road Dance is a period drama set in the picturesque but bleak Outer Hebrides in the early twentieth century. It is a place where, as one character states, “even the sea comes to die.”
Oct 13, 2023 · The Road Dance. "The Road Dance" is an unusually peculiar viewing experience. It begins with a Robert Louis Stevenson quote about the meaning of being a person over a very pretty shot of roiling seas and then establishes these seas are near the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, in 1904.
Oct 12, 2023 · Written and directed by Richie Adams, and based on a novel by John MacKay, the movie has at its center Kirsty Macleod (Hermione Corfield), who harbors dreams of America and an affection (which...
Aug 24, 2021 · The Road Dance follows a tragedy which befalls a woman and her newborn baby, set amid the outbreak of WWI in the Western Isles. Based on a true story, John says he was inspired to write the...
