When these big moments arrive, the cast rise with full-throated determination. And so the barricade itself-as would have been the case-remained like an extraordinary booby trap.” Universal via YouTubeĪdding to the realism, Buzzfeed reports that the cameras were hidden while the barricade was being built so the cast was unaware from which direction they were being filmed. After 19 years as a prisoner, Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) is freed by Javert (Russell Crowe), the officer in charge of the. Read the Empire Movie review of Les Miserables.

“They just our barricade and pinned it together. n nineteenth century France, Jean Valjean, who for a significant period of time has been pursued by the savage policeman Javert in. Hooper says, that the plan was to have the cast build part of the barricade and that the rest would be assembled by the production team, however, the structure was so good that they used the one the cast built, only pausing to bolt down parts of the barricade for safety.įantastic Beast’s Eddie Redmayne, who plays Marius in Les Misérables, recalls:

Eve Stewart, a production designer on Les Misérables, says “people would literally run down the streets of Paris and make barricades in 15 minutes flat and that’s the kind of energy and revolutionary spirit we were trying to capture.”ĭirector Tom Hooper says that when it came time to film, they tasked the cast to build a barricade just before calling “ action!” This led to the cast ripping doors from their hinges and piling chairs and tables in a haphazard fashion to build a barricade for the scene. After Jean Valjean - an ex-convict once imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread - breaks parole, he is hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert.

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