EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody actor Ben Hardy and newcomer Jason Patel were kept apart during the pre-production phase of Unicorns, a love story between an Essex car mechanic and a South Asian drag queen.
It’s the new film co-directed by Sally El Hosaini (My Brother the Devil) and James Krishna Floyd (The Good Karma Hospital), and they took measures to ensure that the relationship Hardy and Patel depict in the movie, which has its world premiere Friday at TIFF, was fresh. “All of our prep was separate,” Patel confirmed. “They didn’t want us to meet.” Floyd said that the only time they saw each other was at the read-through, “but they weren’t allowed to talk to each other.
We explained it to Ben and Jason and to the heads of department that if they spent too much time together before filming began, then it would be too familiar and it wouldn’t be dangerous.
You’d lose the danger and the impact that the film needs when they’re together.” The whole production was in on the act — even producers Philip Herd, Bill Pohlad, Kim Roth, Christa Zofcin Workman and Maven Pictures’ Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler helped police the two actors before cameras rolled.
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