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It features a Who's Who of Scots talent, including Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Kevin McKidd, Robbie Coltrane and Craig Ferguson, alongside award-winning actresses Emma Thompson and Julie Walters.
But director Mark Andrews says the biggest star of the movie will be Scotland itself.....
...Mark said: "We spent a lot of time getting the research right. We have a midge in the film because everybody knows the midges in Scotland and we had to have one in there. "The accents were also a huge deal for us, and the way your mouth moves when speaking with a Scottish accent is quite unique so we had a linguistics expert come in and work with our team. We also got lots of help from the Scottish cast.
"We realised Scotland is so lush and so textured and everything is weathered and there's a history and a veneer on everything.
" We couldn't downplay that or come up with some simple graphic design that would come even remotely close....
...Mark said: "It's all about the relationship between a mother and daughter, and how this young woman has problems with her mother.
"When she has a problem with her mother over marriage, she gets a magic spell to try to stop her mother bothering her with the suitor business.
"But it actually changes her mother into a bear."...
...Mark added: "The performances the actors bring to the part will definitely make it into the characters. You will see Billy Connolly in Fergus, Craig Ferguson in Lord Macintosh and Kevin McKidd in Lord MacGuffin. And Kelly is definitely in Merida.
"You will definitely see all their qualities, just not their faces."...
Few snips from the article ...
It features a Who's Who of Scots talent, including Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Kevin McKidd, Robbie Coltrane and Craig Ferguson, alongside award-winning actresses Emma Thompson and Julie Walters.
But director Mark Andrews says the biggest star of the movie will be Scotland itself.....
...Mark said: "We spent a lot of time getting the research right. We have a midge in the film because everybody knows the midges in Scotland and we had to have one in there. "The accents were also a huge deal for us, and the way your mouth moves when speaking with a Scottish accent is quite unique so we had a linguistics expert come in and work with our team. We also got lots of help from the Scottish cast.
"We realised Scotland is so lush and so textured and everything is weathered and there's a history and a veneer on everything.
" We couldn't downplay that or come up with some simple graphic design that would come even remotely close....
...Mark said: "It's all about the relationship between a mother and daughter, and how this young woman has problems with her mother.
"When she has a problem with her mother over marriage, she gets a magic spell to try to stop her mother bothering her with the suitor business.
"But it actually changes her mother into a bear."...
...Mark added: "The performances the actors bring to the part will definitely make it into the characters. You will see Billy Connolly in Fergus, Craig Ferguson in Lord Macintosh and Kevin McKidd in Lord MacGuffin. And Kelly is definitely in Merida.
"You will definitely see all their qualities, just not their faces."...
