To keep his Gandhi project alive, Attenborough mortgaged his - TopicsExpress



          

To keep his Gandhi project alive, Attenborough mortgaged his house, sold his cars, hocked his paintings and taken roles in what he deemed “crap movies. At one point, he turned down an offer from Laurence Olivier to become associate director of the National Theatre in London because it would have meant giving up ‘Gandhi forever.” Still remember the controversy when he chose an Englishman to play Gandhi. It must have taken extraordinary courage to stick to that decision - and the rest is history.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:08:28 +0000

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