FILM 1280: GRABBERS
TRIVIA: While writer Kevin Lehane
was backpacking across the world and being bit by mosquitoes, he heard the
urban legend that eating Marmite (a vitamin B rich yeast spread) prevents
mosquito bites. Hearing that, he wondered whether mosquitoes also got hungover
from drunk people's blood. The thought stayed with him until he returned home
and wrote the script for Grabbers based on the premise 'get drunk to survive'.
Before shooting, director Jon
Wright took actors Richard Coyle and Ruth Bradley out drinking and filmed them
while drunk. Ruth Bradley discovered many quirks about herself while drunk that
she used in her performance.
The film shot during the harshest
winter in Ireland in over a hundred years. Uncharacteristic blizzards, gale
force storms and sub-zero temperatures regularly hampered production, creating
a difficult shoot.
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