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'...At an earlier news conference, Mirren, 60, had joked with Dancy about how "mortified" she felt in a love scene "when we were romping around on the cushions and you were pretending to be excited about it, with a terrible old woman underneath you."

Glancing over at the sleek and sophisticated Mirren - with her blond bobbed hair and striking figure - Dancy had no problem sounding sincere when he said, "I didn't think of it that way!"

"Hugh had my vote right from the beginning. It's not an easy role. He looks beautiful, and he had the ability -- which not a lot of male actors have -- to give, especially to a woman. And Essex absolutely had to have that ability, because that's what Elizabeth found so seductive about him, the way he gives to her."

Interviewer: You tried on a kilt too, didn't you?

Ioan: Oh, yes. Yes. I see where this is... When I went to the costume fitting, [costume designer] Penny Rose had put Hugh Dancy, who plays Galahad, in a kilt and it worked with him - he really looks great in a kilt - but she put me in a kilt and I looked like a drag queen! So I just decided to go with the leather trousers, leather boots, and a leather tunic, and chainmail on the arms to, you know, make me look a little bit more masculine. And then I went and spoilt it all by curling my eyelashes.

Interviewer: Did you know any of the others?

Ioan: No, I'd never met Clive or Ray, but they're great lads. I'd met Hugh Dancy a couple of times socially. But we've all really gelled.

Interviewer: How did you develop the chemistry with Hugh Dancy?

Anne: Lots of late-night drinking sessions. No, I'm just kidding... We were in Ireland. No, Hugh, we had it from the first time we met, his audition. I mean, people often ask me if I fell of my chair for the 'Princess Diaries' audition. I did. For his Char audition I fell off my chair again, but just because I thought, 'Oh my God, I get to work with this guy for three months? Woo-hoo.' And then I fell over. I don't think it's something, I mean, you can work on the pacing or the dialog and the banter. We watched a lot of old films, a lot of Katherine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy films. We watched 'Roman Holiday' together, we had a lot of conversations about it. But ultimately, when we got to the set we just sort of looked into each other's eyes and hoped that it would be there.

Interviewer: How many pints could you put away?


Keira: I'm a bit of a lightweight, so not many. Not like the boys. We'd go to all these pubs at night and Hugh [Dancy] could really knock it back. But I do like it. It does taste different in Dublin to anywhere else.

Interviewer: ...So how did you create the camaraderie that's integral to the movie?

Ray: You're right, they had already bonded and were a scene, really, and I understand how that happens. But I was lucky, because I already knew little Hugh Dancy [who plays Galahad], having worked with him before, and obviously knew Clive. Also Sean Gilder [Jols]. There wasn't a problem, in a way you become like a family when you're filming together for six months.

"Hugh Dancy is a terrific young actor, he's in the vein of Orlando Bloom...he's so strong on screen."

Interviewer: Making a film ['King Arthur'] on that scale doesn't happen everday, so you know you are going to face a lot of challenges...

Antione: Absolutely...and that's what you say to yourself and you realise that this is what film making really is, you have to roll up your sleeves and get in the mud, which I've done before, but you really do on these type of things, you really do. You are in a different world every day, it's the Dark Ages and there's not a lot of jokes about. Except for your actors. Actually those guys kept me alive every day. Ray, Clive, Hugh Dancy, every day they would come to me and they knew what I was dealing with because they are very observant and they would come to me and crack some jokes and play around a little bit. They were great.