![]() This is a place that the Lambeth-born Lincoln feels at home, having played rugby up to the age of 18 and gone to university in Wales, where rugby is as much national language as sport. Luckily, the majority of the film – which follows an affair between two men who play for a club based loosely on the Kings Cross Steelers – was shot on grass and mud. I was sure we were going to fall off the side of this cliff in a blizzard.’ He offers a grin familiar to any Emmerdale fan (he joined the long-running soap in 2019 ) – and a caveat: ‘I'm sure everyone else would say we were metres away from the edge, but it felt like we were going to plunge to our deaths. But for Alexander Lincoln, who plays one of the leading men in London-set rugby drama In From the Side, it was donning skis that inspired real terror.Ĭhatting over Zoom from his mother’s Surrey living room the actor recalls shooting the film, which premieres at BFI Flare next week, in the French Alps. You’d be forgiven for thinking the scariest thing about shooting a film with rugby at its core would be the threat of an 18-stone bruiser landing on your ribcage.
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