to read. Um, so you begin by hearing them read the words and we actually auditioned from the book and not from the script because the scenes were much more complicated in the book and gave them much more opportunity to develop you know, develop a scene they were reading I mean it would be say 5 minutes rather than 1 minute of, of a scene. Um, I think once, once you've cast them you obviously trusted them to play the character, they all went and read the book very carefully, I mean it was an enormous problem to stop them from bringing in material from the book and trying to get you to put it in to the script and I mean both Andrew and I and Louis had to give a public speech to them but would they please trust the script and stop bringing in more dialogue from the book which although it was very good, unbalanced it. Um, then,

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Annotation 3: The words 'to the script' are hand underlined in pen. To the left of this, the words 'Part 3 beg?' are written in the left margin of the text.

Ref Code: PM-80 Title: Transcript extract from an interview with Middlemarch Director, Anthony Page. p. 68. Date: 1993 Format: .png Source: ITM-7963 Transcripts of interviews with members of the cast and crew of Middlemarch (BBC/WGBH, 1994). Edited for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Educational Developments/BFI (British Film Institute) Education package Screening Middlemarch: 19th Century Novel to 90s Television. Held at BFI, London, UK. http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceArchive/110008677