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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Interviews by Chris Broughton

‘I spat in Sean Connery’s face 16 times’: Ron Perlman on making The Name of the Rose

Sean Connery and Christian Slater, as monks, examine a swollen corpse
‘I opened the door to find Sean there. He said, “Listen, boy …”’ Connery with Christian Slater in the medieval murder mystery. Photograph: Cinetext/Constantin Film/Allstar

Jean-Jacques Annaud, director

I read an article about a curious book that had great reviews in Italy, a murder mystery about monks in the middle ages fighting for the fictional missing part of Aristotle’s Poetics. I said: “This is for me.” Since childhood, I had been fascinated with medieval and religious architecture, and Aristotle’s Poetics is my favourite literary work.

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