15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018The actor who starred in Roeg’s 1973 masterpiece, Don’t Look Now, remembers a visionary director, and cinematographer, who changed his life for ever• Nicolas Roeg remembered by Donald Sutherland• Read the Observer’s obituaries of 2018 in full hereI was filming in Florida in the spring of 1972.
My agent phoned to tell me a fellow named Nic Roeg wanted to speak with me about filming Daphne du Maurier’s Don’t Look Now.
I didn’t know him.
Didn’t know the story.
So I bought a book of her stories and read it, read the script and then I screened Walkabout and Performance, the film he’d co-directed with Donald Cammell.
I liked everything.They gave me his phone number and I called him in London.
He answered.
There was a lot of background barking.
A cacophonous chorus of Jack Russells.
He and I talked through it.
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