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Outstanding In His Field
Mackenzie Crook’s Worzel Gummidge is back this Christmas, and the man himself couldn’t be happier
WHEN RED ALERT catches up with actor Mackenzie Crook, he’s on the last lap of post-production work on a bumper crop of Worzel Gummidge specials, which he’s once again written, starred in, and directed while wearing the heavy-duty prosthetics required to transform him into a turnipheaded scarecrow.
“It was brutal this time round,” he admits. “We did three in one go, and so it was a nine-week shoot. I enjoyed the days when I wasn’t in make-up. The shoot is always the most anxious point of the process for me. In my ideal world, it would always be blazing sunshine and beautiful blue skies, but it has to be torrential rain for it to even show up on cameras. I’ve had to learn to chill out about that.”