Mel explained, “I was getting like four hours a night sleep and working seven days a week. The 61-year-old confessed that his memories of making the film were hazy though, as the shoot was so demanding. One of the ways the Irish government help Mel make the film was by allowing him to use Irish Army reservists as extras in battle scenes, with the same reservists playing both armies. Higgins, had “opened the gates up over here and really greased the wheels and helped us get it done”. He went on to explain that Ireland’s Minister for Arts at the time, Michael D. It’s not people-friendly,” he said in an interview on Irish radio show Dermot & Dave on Today FM. “We started off in Scotland and we were thinking, ‘How are we going to do this? It’s not horse-friendly.
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