People: Mike Leigh calls on Halcrow to help engineer realism
Paul Maliphant, the firm's highways and transportation sales director, was contacted through the Geological Society in London to advise Oscar-nominated director Mike Leigh on Another Year, his latest film.
In the movie, actor Jim Broadbent - of Moulin Rogue, Iris and Bridget Jones's Diary fame - plays Tom Hepple, an engineering geologist.
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Hide AdMaliphant says: "I was convening a field trip in Wales in my role as chairman of the southern Wales regional group of the Geological Society and they contacted me to see if he could join us. I arranged for Jim to have dinner with a former colleague, whose career matched the early stages of Tom's - mineral exploration in Australia in the early 1970s."
Maliphant went on to advise on the correct number and type of vehicles that should be on set.