Summary
Actor, screenwriter, novelist, control freak, League of Gentlemen co-founder and creator Mark Gatiss is a man of many talents, not least his chameleon-like ability to turn himself into any one of his hilariously sinister/tragic characters from the cult BBC2 show. Having scripted a key episode of the new Dr Who and completed his first novel, he is currently filming LoG - the movie - in Ireland
The Wicklow Gap is not an inherently evil place. It's actually one of Ireland's purest and most beautiful physical features, a high mountain pass through colourful, glistening valley country. On a clear day, you would be wonderstruck. But today the rain clouds are low enough to claw at the ground, carried by a pitiless sub-zero wind, mixing with the fog and blanking everything out. It's a miasma of dread, I tell you. So sinister it's funny. Which is exactly the atmosphere The League of Gentlemen have always courted.See the full content of this document
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Renaissance Gentleman
And right in the middle of the Gap is where the new full-length movie-version of that horrific BBC hit comedy series is being shot. My mother, who lives nearby, kindly drives me up there. She's never watched The League of Gentlemen. I could tell her that she definitely wouldn't get it or like it, but that would start an argument. She doesn't see how they could possibly be filming on a day like this. At first, it's hard to tell what's happening - the production car park is full, but there's no one around. Then Steve Pemberton, actor, writer, and co-founder of The League, strides out of the ominous whiteness toward his trailer, dressed in full Bavarian folk-costume as Herr Lipp, the programme's repugnant and h...
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