ITALIAN JOB MOVIE

ITALIAN JOB MOVIE

A lot of the stunts in the movie he came up with and we just shot them. But he was a brilliant man, he knew exactly what he was doing. Well I wasn’t mad, Rémy who did it was mad. People must have thought you were mad to include that huge jump between the two roofs? Our stunt driver and coordinator Rémy Julienne was trying to do a complete turn but he could only get up so far. Unfortunately, of course, the twist didn't work because the sewer was just a little bit too narrow. In fact, at the moment they're trying to wangle us to get up to Coventry because they want to put up a plaque in commemoration of this sewer use. It was a new sewer though I’m happy to say. That’s right, it was actually shot in Coventry. There were lots of little parts like the driving down the steps of the wedding and the gallery scene.Īnd the sewer scene wasn’t actually shot in Turin, is that right? I think we probably spent six weeks in total on all of the different elements of the chase. How long did it take to shoot the whole Mini chase? He owned the town, there wasn’t much question about that. And when we stopped the whole centre of the town for a great big scene, we were able to block off all of the entrances to the main square with our trucks and the police let it happen, because he had said so. He provided a whole load of Fiats for the rest of the film though. But he understood perfectly well when he read the script why it couldn't be that way. When I met with Gianni he actually offered to switch the Minis for Fiats, and he said you can have as many as you want and various monies and other things.

The other thing was that a great close friend of mine was a very good friend of Gianni Agnelli, who was head of Fiat, Turin and basically head of everything at that time. Milan knew too much, Rome almost certainly knew too much. So, one of the rules of film is to always try and shoot in a virgin city when you’re going to make a lot of trouble. Nobody had ever shot a picture in Turin, and we needed to cause a great deal of trouble to traffic and the city and such like.

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