The former child actor "was in danger" on the cinema set, admits the co-star

Sarah Polley was eight years old when she played in the adventures of Baron Munchausen.


Being on a cinema set must be at least a little frightening and intimidating for everythingchild actor, but whenSarah Polleysaid that when she worked with the directorTerry Gilliam, one of his heroes, on the 1988 filmThe adventures of Baron Munchausen, she was in real danger and left who continued to affect him for the years to come. In aExtract from his new memories,,Run towards danger, published byThe Guardian, Polley recounts her experience as an eight-year-old old-year-old, shares how she changed her mind on adults that she blamed for having exposed her to painful situations and explains how a co-star finally has admitted publicly that his memories are not outside the basis. Read the rest to learn more about the situation.

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Polley was delighted to be in the film at the start.

Sarah Polley in
Columbia Pictures

In the extract of the memories published byThe Guardian, Polley - now actor, writer and director - explains that she and her family were huge fans of Monty Python, so when they heard of a casting for a fantastic film by Gilliam, a member of Monty Python, she was delighted to be able to be able to hear. Polley was thrown into the role of Sally Salt, the companion of Baron Munchausen (John Neville), when she was eight years old.

"Terry was grossant, fun, exuberant," wrote Polley by meeting the director. "He reminded me of the kind of disobedient and unregulated child that I had avoided at school to avoid trouble." But, once they started to film, Polly says that "things quickly started to collapse. Terry was erratic, a dreamer, someone who did not live in the world of" logic and raison "."

She was placed in situations that terrified her.

Sarah Polley in
Columbia Pictures

Polley in detail on the scenes she filmed for the film and how they scared it to the point of hysteria. In a scene, she had to cross a set made to look like a "bombed city". She writes: "Debris explosions exploded on the ground around me, accompanied by deafening booms that made me feel that I had exploded. A newspaper I was to run was partially on fire. The gigantic explosions continued and rocked all around me. "She says that the scene was difficult for her, and that even" Terry did not show any frustration as for the delay, he did not seem to notice how [she] was frightened. "

Polley also shares that, during a scene on which she and other actors sat in a boat in a reservoir, a horse accidentally surfaced an explosive from submarine, which left near her . "I remember a hard and overwhelming feeling in my chest and being transported to an ambulance while the crew looked, alarmed. I remember that the doctors were nice, that my parents said that he did not There was nothing wrong with me and that I went back to work the next day, "she wrote.

In addition, Polley reveals that when she was very sick for a few days, feverish and vomiting, she always went to work, because her father told her that there was not another option.

Later, she spoke to Gilliam about her memories.

Terry Gilliam at the 2019 Venice Film Festival
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Polley includes in her memory emails that she exchanged with Gilliam when she was in the middle of her twenties. She explained in her emails that she had not blamed her that she was put in dangerous situations on the set - instead of blaming her parents for not having protected her forward.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Gilliam was receptive to email, but also said to him: "Although things have looked dangerous, they were not. The only time the events got nearby, is when The horse jumped from the boat. " For once with the horse and the explosive underwater, he apologized. However, he also wondered if Polley remembered which parts of the film were her and which were in fact his double blow.

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An adult co-star has corroborated its claims.

Eric Idle at the premiere of
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In 2018, when Gilliam manufacturedControversial comments on the #MeToo movement, someone tweeted about the exchange of emails between Polley and Gilliam - which she had also published in an article she wrote for theToronto Star- As an example of his character. In response, actorEric inactive, who was alsoThe adventures of the baron Munchausen,,tweeted, "She was right. She was in danger. Several times it was incredible that we never lost anyone. It was me and sheJack Purvis at the back of the boat. The explosion frightened the horse that fell into us, and the brilliant rider took it over board. ""

Polley writes in his memories: "Someonewho was there appeared from nowhere to confirm my memories and check my version of the events. I swear it was at this time that I stopped to hide when I heard the sudden noise of a car door click. ""

She now blames Gilliam, not her parents, for the traumatic experience.

Sarah Polley at the Gala Honouring Excellence in Creative Fiction Storytelling in 2018
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While Polley blamed her parents not to protect her better in the email she sent to Gilliam in her twenties, she now believes that the director was most responsible. The 43 -year -old man writes: "I do not blame my parents as much as before, understand more now how difficult it would be to get up and stop a huge production in financial and disastrous time. Over the course Years on and terry are making more and more comments which demonstrate not only a childish incapacity to understand adult problems, but a deliberate dismissal of movements that seek to claim equality and recognition for past damages, I see it, And the role he played in chaos at the time, differently. "

The best life has contacted a Gilliam representative for comments but has not yet received an answer.

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