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From There to Here filming - Exclusive report and photos

22/9/2013

 
After seeing on Twitter that Philip was filming in Manchester City Centre’s northern quarter, we dispatched our Manchester-based admin to go and see what she could see. Here’s her report… (as always, click on images to view larger versions).

After quickly finishing my Sunday dinner, off I went. I arrived in the city at just about half past four and made my way to the location, which was the NCP car park on Tibb Street. (For those of you that know Manchester, this is in front of Sacha’s Hotel and Afflecks Palace.)

The car park had black boards up around two sides of it and parked on it where several 90’s police cars, ambulances and a fire engine. It was rather quiet, but as the few crew members who were there weren’t packing up I decided to wait it out for a bit.  Quite a few people walking past looked concerned that there had been an actual crime, despite the emergency vehicles clearly being out of date. I explained to a couple of people that it was the BBC filming a drama etc.
About half an hour later I overheard a conversation saying that cast should be arriving in about 15 minutes and that they were going to finish off filming from this morning. After speaking to a couple of security guards, neither of whom knew who Phil was (shocking!), I managed to speak to a couple of crew members and they said he was possibly coming back, but they weren’t sure.

Again I decided to hang around and about 20 minutes later a people carrier pulled up and out stepped Liz White and Phil!! He entered the set and started chatting to producers as the scene was being set up. After having his make-up touched up he and Liz were stood around for about ten minutes, laughing and joking with each other to pass the time. At one point Phil started pointing something out to Liz – I wonder if it was from their time on Life on Mars.

Just before the scene began filming a police helicopter flew over, delaying the start by a couple of minutes and Philip was clearly very interested, looking up at the sky and wondering what was going on. Then they called action and Phil and Liz when from chatting and joking to in their characters in a matter of milliseconds. Quite a talent to have.


The scene was an aftermath scene, taking place shortly after the bomb detonates. Phil had his arm around Liz, who was dressed in a dark blue apron, and was leading her towards the paramedics. “Excuse me!” he called in his Mancunian accent, although it wasn’t as rough as Gene’s. “This lady’s been ’urt. Can someone take a look?” He hands Liz’s character over to a paramedic and then looks around that the ‘devastation’ (which I assume will be put in later via the wonders of CGI). He had his hand on the back of his neck as he surveyed the scene and looked quite shaken. He then spoke to another paramedic, but we couldn’t hear what was being said. From the look on Phil’s face though I assume he was told that it had been a bomb, rather than something like a gas explosion. He took another look around before being summoned back to Liz’s character. Then the director shouted cut!  Great work from all involved. The extras for the scene included a couple in wedding attire, so not a good day for them in the show!

They moved a few vehicles around and shot the scene from a different angle. This angle took two goes to get right, but it wasn’t anything Phil/Liz had done wrong. Then a voice came over the crew’s walkie talkies to say that Liz was released and Phil needed to go and change for the next scene.

As he returned to his car, he walked right passed me but I was too star-struck to actually call out to him. Plus he was surrounded by crew etc. and I went a bit shy. I cursed myself as soon as the car drove off but resigned myself to the fact that that was it – at least I’d seen him and I got to see some filming.
I began the walk back to my car and as I did so noticed some of the crew walking past me with equipment on a trolley. It so happens that the location for Phil’s next scene was at the junction of Mangle St/Back Piccadilly – which was on my way to the car park.  It’s a bit of a back alley and looks like the entrance to a nightclub…
I hung around for a bit more, watched them set up a scaffold for lighting etc. but it started to get dark and I was alone in the city, on the evening of the derby football match. There was already a heavy police presence indicating trouble so with one last wistful look at the set in front of me, I turned around and left.
Hopefully, as the whole thing is being filmed up here, I will get another chance to meet Phil, but if not – I got to see him work his magic as an actor, and I think that’s just as good!

Well, there you go – we’ll add this to out fan reports page as well. Photos will also go in the From Here to There image gallery.

We also have a selection of photos from Rachel (@thereadaftbear) who was lucky enough to see the morning shoot. Thanks for letting us use these Rachel!
10 Comments
Lyn
22/9/2013 14:40:22

Thank you so much for the wonderful report & photos, it's all very exciting !

How lovely that you saw Phil & Liz White working together, they seem to get on very well.

If they're filming in Manchester for some time, hopefully you'll get the chance see another scene being shot. Thanks for all the time & trouble you've taken . That report was fascinating .

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Theresa
22/9/2013 15:38:53

What a fab experience and thanks so much for going to trouble of going out there and hAnging around AND writing it up. I was especially interested to hear how quickly Liz And Phil snapped into character!
How lucky to have Phill walk straight past you! I think I would have reacted the same way. Cheers. :)

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Susan
23/9/2013 01:09:05

Thanks very much for sharing the photos you took and for the wonderful report. Sounds exciting. Phil walking past you, if it had been me, I'd have been starstruck too.

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Caz
23/9/2013 15:02:12

I was on set as an extra yesterday (you can see me as a police officer next to a paramedic in the last shot). Philip was lovely on set, taking time to speak to people and off set back at the catering vans, just milling about with crew and extras. I was in the later scenes on Mangle Street and he was all suited and booted, spotting a young lad dealing drugs in a nightclub queue. He was speaking to the director quite a bit and getting advice on how to play the scene- fascinating to watch. All in all, a great day.

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Admin
23/9/2013 16:05:45

Thanks for the info Caz - that's great. We'll look out for you on the show!! Philip is lovely and I'm still cursing myself for not speaking to him. Don't suppose you've got any photos you'd like to share? Or want to write a report for the "We've Met Phil' section?

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Beja
28/12/2013 14:26:44

Caz were you the police officer with the baby?

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Elaine link
26/9/2013 00:06:46

Thanks for sharing this - it sounds like an interesting drama and one I will watch out for. And in only a couple of weeks you'll have John Simm filming his new drama in Manchester too - 'Prey' for ITV. Happy Days!

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Fiona gilbert
15/4/2014 12:08:36

Hi if admin want to contact me my son played Philips grandson and we filmed 6 days with the cast and crew in various locations. I have lots of pics and great memories of the while thing! It was amazing! Feel free to contact me xx

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Admin
16/4/2014 15:39:26

Hi Fiona - we've sent you an email!!

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Theresa H
16/4/2014 16:00:39

Oooh! How exciting! Looking forward to Fiona's goodies. Just re-read all comments. We must look out for Caz too (lucky sod!)

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