Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan both spoke of the pressure they felt while shooting an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel 'Never Let Me Go' at the London Film Festival on October 13.
The actors, speaking before the film debuted at the Festival, said that having the author on set left them determined to deliver faithful performances.
Speaking at a press conference in London's Leicester Square, Carey Mulligan said, "Keira and I did Pride and Prejudice together and we've done lots of adaptations of Dickens and Austen and things where the author's not around to tell you if it's rubbish.
"So this was doubly intimidating because we had [Kazuo] with us and you want it to be everything that he imagined when he wrote it, and there are current people who read the book recently and are in love with the book, so there's more pressure."
Sheepishly admitting that she hadn't read the book when she signed up for the project, Keira Knightley added, "I started talking to friends and saying, 'I might do this film, I think it's really interesting', and tonnes of them were saying, 'This is my favorite book in the entire world'. Actually, one said the most terrifying thing, which was that 'it sums up our generation' – which now, having read the book, I find a bleak prospect indeed."
Mulligan added that her fears were allayed when she met the cast and crew, telling reporters, "From reading the script and meeting everybody who was doing it and knowing who else was going to be in the film, I always felt that we were on the same page and we were going to make the same film. We were all so in love with it."
Director Mark Romanek agreed, adding, "I think we were all bonded in a common love for the book and we were all bonded in the goal of trying to do justice to it. [We were] trying to transfer what was so moving about it on the page without messing it up."
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