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country my mother would tell me, ‘ The British are barbarians, they painted themselves blue’. So I ended up proving her right.”
However the biggest transformation was Mackenzie, 46, who spent up to five hours a day in the make-up chair.
“We managed to get it down to three and a half hours at the end!” he says with a laugh. “I grew to really love it. It was a meditative process and slowly changing in front of the mirror was a getting SO WHAT about most memorable moments?
“Zoe and I shared a few scenes together,” recalls David, 53.
“Our characters might not be on equal footing, because I have this massive army behind me, but we’re certainly intellectual equals, and something about that meant I really loved playing those scenes with her.”
“My favourite bit was the night shoots where the explosions happened!” Zoe declares. “Towards the end, there’s an attack on my camp so they had to set off all these explosives. That was great fun to watch them go!”
For Kelly and Mackenzie, it was shooting at the especially-built ritual site ‘Amber Palace’ that took some beating.
“It looks like Stonehenge, and we had 300 extras dancing and playing drums and a smoke machine going under a full moon!” says Kelly, 40.
“I was just thinking, ‘This thing is touched with some magic’.”
Another highlight for her was working with Mackenzie. “He was channelling something playing Veran,” she says. “He’s extremely powerful for such a slim guy, and he inhabits Veran with this madness and brilliance. He’s so inventive.”
Of the Amber Palace, Mackenzie remembers finding himself on top of it “with my fear of heights to perform this massive ritual”.
“I just stepped away from myself and said, ‘This is quite possibly how it actually was back then’.”
All episodes of Britannia will be available at once on Thursday, January 18, on demand exclusively with Sky Atlantic and NOW TV. CIA Director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) succeeds in shutting down the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). Subsequently, the hunters become the hunted when a shadowy organisation known as the Syndicate, fronted by Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), targets IMF for extinction. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) covertly reunites with colleagues William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and computer hacker Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) to take on their foes. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is a stylish and slick fifth instalment of the action-packed franchise. IN 1947, Sherlock Holmes (Sir Ian McKellen, left), now 93, is a shadow of the brilliant logician who once held court at 221b Baker Street The ageing sleuth fusses over his bee hives and infuriates his widowed housekeeper, Mrs Munro (Laura Linney). Her son Roger (Milo Parker) inspires the sleuth to delve into the the past to recall his only unsolved case – a missing person enquiry from 1919.