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The detail about shooting Emmerdale Farm exteriors on the same film stock that Paul Thomas Anderson later used for Phantom Thread shows how even the early soap work gave her solid technical grounding that carried through to bigger productions.
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If you watch the full interview it is worth noting how long the real time improvisations with Mike Leigh actually run before they get cut down.
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