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The Constant Gardener - Fernando Meirelles interview



Compiled by: Jack Foley

Q: Were you always going to film in Kenya?
FM:
Actually the first idea was to shoot in South Africa. So we went to Kenya for five or six days to visit the country and then we went to South Africa to see how we could reproduce Kenya in South Africa. When we got to South Africa on the second morning we were having breakfast and we felt it was not the right place to shoot, so we decided to come back to London and try to persuade the distributors and the insurance company to let us shoot in Kenya. I was planning to use real places with real people and this would be impossible to do in