Hugh Bonneville recalls "life-threatening" moment filming new Noel Fielding show
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Hugh Bonneville has recalled a "life-threatening" moment during his filming for The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.
The Apple TV+ series is a largely fictional retelling of the infamous highway robber (played by Noel Fielding), with the show detailing his crimes and his run-ins with the duplicitous Jonathan Wild (Bonneville).
The leading pair spoke exclusively with Digital Spy following the show's premiere on Friday (March 1), with Bonneville revealing that he had a lucky escape during the filming of the comedy series.
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"Not so much funny as life-threatening was jumping off the bridge," Bonneville recalled. "There was a bit where we jumped off a bridge together. As we got up to the top, you start getting a bit sweaty when you see about eight stuntmen instead of two.
"You think, 'Right, so this is quite a big thing that we're doing.' And then you get up to the top of this ladder, and climb onto this structure, and realise you've got to jump whatever it was: It felt like 20 feet or 30 feet."
"I'd done some wire work when I was young," Fielding added. "When you're younger, you're much more – I want to say brave, but probably stupid. But it was the other way: It was being pulled off the floor as we were jumping and hoping that the wire was going to save us, but you don't quite know."
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"We were much higher up than I thought we were going to be. My knees were knocking a little bit," Fielding continued. "I looked over, thinking: 'Hugh's probably done a lot of this stuff. He's definitely the next James Bond.' And then I looked over at him, and he went, 'I'm shitting myself.' I thought, 'Thank God for that!'"
The pair also said the experience helped them bond emotionally as they placed their trust in the stunt department.
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin streams on Apple TV+.
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