![]() “I wanted to initiate access to both Eric and Patti so they told us a lot of stuff we were able to incorporate into the screenplay.” “I hadn't been part of the 10 years of development and when you read a book you are about to turn into a film you want to have ideas fresh in your mind,” he explains. To keep the story fresh Teplitzky didn't read the book until two months prior to shooting. And if you choose to stay together you really find something much deeper.” When you really find it is when you have to go through pain together. People don't fall in love, or really find deep love when everything is good. “I've always believed that people fuse through pain. That's the thread Patti and I share, obviously in very different situations, but I connected to her. “I do believe there's a way in which love can heal, by just gently, slowly, encouraging someone to confront things, and I wanted to do that on screen. “I'd never had the chance to play a woman who gets to stand by her partner, her lover, her husband through very difficult times and it's something I feel very strongly about and have done in my own personal life,” she says. Kidman even alludes to it in the film's press notes. Kidman has admitted that she was thinking of her own experiences helping husband Keith Urban to break free from his addictions when she found herself attracted to play Patti Lomax, who helped her husband deal with his trauma and to find happiness. I don't know her well enough to know what experiences in her life might be brought to the story, but one just has a sense about these things.” I had a feeling that she would appreciate this and that we would react well together. “I think Nicole is an extremely fine actress who has always made fearless choices, interesting choices. “We knew each other a little bit, so it helped open the channels of communication,” Firth explains. Ultimately the ease they have as husband and wife on screen is palpable. Kidman in turn was keen to play Lomax's wife, Patti, in part because she had long wanted to work with Firth. And even when Rachel Weisz dropped out when The Bourne Legacy went schedule, Firth suggested Nicole Kidman. Recent Oscar winner Colin Firth, probably the only British actor possessing the old world charm and emotional depth to accurately convey Lomax's experiences, became passionate about the project. This is about the importance of actually speaking after years of not speaking. Bringing a tale of torture and healing to the big screen was never going to be an easy task, yet when Australian director Jonathan Teplitzky ( Better Than Sex, Gettin' Square and Burning Man) came on board, magic seemed to happen. ![]() The Australia-UK co-production The Railway Man had been gestating ever since former British soldier Eric Lomax wrote his 1995 memoir about his experiences building the Thai/Burma Death Railway during World War Two.
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