Re: Child Of The Moon
Date: September 25, 2012 11:54
From Nzentgraf
680511A 11th May: Surrey (countryside), England. Shooting of a promofilm. Director:
Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Starring: Linda Thorson & The Rolling Stones.
- Child Of The Moon (MJ/KR) -playback.
From "Heart of Stone; The Unauthorized Life of Mick Jagger", author Laura Jackson, Smith-Gryphon Pub., 1997
The next day (after the JJF promo clips), the Stones and Eileen Atkins, then a young actress, got together to finish filming footage for 'Child of the Moon'.
"We went into the country for the shoot," says Lindsay-Hogg. "In addition to Eileen, we also had a child, and Mick and Keith were to appear on horseback at one point."
"It was filmed in Epping Forest," Eileen Atkins recalls. "I was paid fifty quid for an afternoon's work, and it was all rather glamorous to be working with the Rolling Stones. I was impressed with Mick that day, and I do recall that I did my first take very badly indeed. Michael gently said, 'I don't think we want it quite like that. Let's do it again,' and Mick never gave the slightest clue that he thought I'd just been terrible. He was very charming, and I came to the conclusion that he did have a brain after all."When filming ended it was minus one scene.
"Brian was to have been filmed in a tree," says Lindsay-Hogg, but when the time came, we couldn't find him. He had wandered off and got lost."
The atmosphere between Jagger and Jones was noticeable to the director who admits, "I don't want to use the word ostracized, but Brian annoyed Mick, that's for sure."
It had gone beyond annoyance. Lately, a few guitarists, including Eric Clapton, had been brought in to the studio to contribute, which Jones took as an insult. He had cleaned up and regained enough confidence to confront Jagger about it.
Jagger began to develop his own ambitions. There had often been talk of a Stones film, which never had been realized, but Jagger had a real desire to act and at this point almost got his first part.
"Michael Lindsay-Hogg was a friend of mine," says Eileen Atkins, and at the time I took part in the 'Child of the Moon" clip, he and I were about to do Elecktra on TV. I said with Michael that it might be a fresh idea to work with people not normally associated with this kind of thing. I suggested we ask Mick Jagger to play Orestes, and Michael was all for it. But then over the next couple of weeks we had second thoughts. Mick was great as a Rolling Stone, but we just couldn't see him handling Greek tregedy."
So, who is it then, Eileen Atkins? or was it Linda Thorson (the Avengers' Tara King)! I've been under the assumption that it was Linda for ever - never heard of the Eileen Atkins angle, needs clearing up really.
Cheers