FIELDS OF GOLD Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes head up a stellar cast in The Dig.
It was difficult for the producers to get me to open the script, because the pitch is not something that you immediately go, ‘I recognise why that would be an interesting story,’” says director Simon Stone of The Dig, a recreation of the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon burial mound in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, in 1938. “But I remember reading the script on the Eurostar, and… I have no memory of the Channel or Paris or England.”