Of the acting, director Bill Bennett said: "Look, it is terrifying for the actors but the thing that I've stressed with them is that I won't ever let them down. I'll always provide a safety net for them, they're not out there by themselves and I won't let them look foolish. And I think probably because of my previous work, they do trust me. Plus, I must admit I'm becoming more confident in this style." This style was pretty well in Bennett's professional genes, from his earliest days as a current affairs journalist on television, through the award winning dramatized documentaries, both for television and features films, which he had made during the then past twenty-three years or so. Bennett added: "I started working this way because I'd come from a documentary background and the thing that excited me about documentary was the fact that you could turn a camera on people that you've lived with for months and yet they would come out with something that was so totally surprising and yet within truth and within their characters. And it would all make sense. I missed that when I went into drama, I missed that excitement, that spontaneity so I started working like that in 'Backlash' (1986), trying to meld two forms so that I could have the excitement, that unpredictability and yet still have the narrative control for where a story was going. I started to look around and see that the actors that I admired were very bright and, invariably in more conventional drama, the film makers were only using the iceberg tip of their intelligence. The actors seemed to be disenfranchised from the process so what I set out to do was to say, OK smart actors can contribute to the process."

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