Actor, father, motorbike fanatic: Charley Boorman is the epitome of the modern adventurer in pursuit of fresh challenges away from the success of his personal life. Now 44, Boorman lives in Fulham, London, with his wife Olivia and their two daughters, Doone and Kinvara. It was extraordinary.”, Excalibur still looks incredible – all sparkling emerald greens and shimmering silver armour. We’ve had the Disney version in The Sword in the Stone; the silliness of Monty Python and the Holy Grail; the swishing hair of Richard Gere’s Lancelot in First Knight; a macho punch-up in Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword; a British teen adventure in Joe Cornish’s The Kid Who Would Be King, and now Netflix's Cursed from Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler.
“I remember it was manic on the film set.
I was four at the time and my father said to me, 'If you sit there and do as you're told you will get that' - pointing to a beautiful red tricycle that was parked by the set. We have a Mercedes Viano, which is a sort of posh people carrier. He grew up on an estate in the Wicklow mountains his dad had bought on a whim, and also on film sets, making his debut in his father’s brutal 1972 thriller Deliverance, aged six. The gorgeous, fantastical cinematography turns to nightmarish scenes of pestilence, famine, and hanging knights having their eyeballs plucked out by birds.
I appeared in several of Dad's films - at the time, I didn't really appreciate how great a director he was. “Even at that age I understood where I was. And there's added pressure to succeed because of what's at stake.
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“He was an amazing actor and could mimic anybody’s voice,” remembers Charley. When they said ‘cut’ I’d come running in between the horses and pick up bits of armour to reattach to the actors.
We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. I was walking out as she was walking in, and she looked at me and went, ‘Ah, my son!’. It should be crazy stuff riding up through South America. “We had all the guys in armour, and the armour was held together with leather thongs, so I’d have a belt full of these leather thongs and armour.
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Charley went on to appear in a string of his father's films during the Eighties, such as Excalibur, The Emerald Forest and Hope And Glory. “I think he probably just wanted to finished the movie unscathed!” he laughs. Ewan and I are already talking about Long Way Up for next year.
That's all I can remember, apart from Charlie Wiggin, who became a lifelong friend. Which given the swords and battle axes, in full armour, could be quite scary.”, Clive Swift recalled that during a battle scene real wooden arrow shafts were being fired from a tower and sailing past him. The closest I came to death was crossing a river in Papua New Guinea with a load of drunken helpers. “I think all of us were intimidated by working with John, he was already a legendary director,” said Gabriel Byrne, also speaking on the documentary. After they were set up again they’d head out for another take.
Acting saved me from my terrible dyslexia. Orion had told Boorman he could hire anyone he wanted as Merlin except Williamson, after the failure of previous films, but Boorman cast Williamson anyway – though the director had to manage pre-existing animosity between Williamson and Mirren, carried over from a stage production the pair had previously appeared in together. Charley Boorman, John Boorman’s son, is now best known for motorbike adventures on TV with Ewan McGregor, but back in 1980 he watched Excalibur from the production sidelines, working as a makeshift squire to the film’s armourer Terry English, and playing the young version of Arthur’s bastard son Mordred.
That's rubbish - we ride every mile. He’d always give people that chance.”. Because it was everywhere.
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It was my dad's big movie as a director, and at the very end there's a scene where Jon Voight comes home to his wife.
Based on the 15th century Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory – itself a reworking of Arthur stories which had already existed for centuries – Excalibur is an episodic journey through the life of King Arthur, from him (accidentally) drawing Excalibur from the stone, to his rule over “The Land”, the halcyon days of Camelot, the affair between his right hand-knight Lancelot with Queen Guinevere, the quest for the Holy Grail, and Arthur’s final battle against Mordred (after the bastard son grows up from baby-faced Charley Boorman into still-baby-faced Robert Addie).
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The quest was a triumph; Excalibur does have a touch of the magical. These days, though, I'm a motorcycle adventurer first and an actor second. If they don’t do it properly there’s not much time for pampering. I'm expecting jungles, bandidos and drug lords... Charley teamed up with Merrell for this photo shoot.
He says motorcyclists wear leather and therefore I'm gay, so there's no way he's allowing me on the show. It's like my own kids when people talk to them about me travelling round the world and making TV programmes.
Boorman and his cinematographer Alex Thomson achieved the effect with green filters over the lighting and even shone lights onto moss to give the film “a kind of luminosity.” “So it felt like a myth rather than a reality,” Boorman told Excalibur: Behind the Movie. Apple's new iPad is blazingly fast, gorgeous to look at, and quite simply the best tablet out there - and for a lot of people, probably the best computer out there.
He grew up with the Arthurian legend.”. Find out more, The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, The death of magic: John Boorman's Excalibur, Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson in Excalibur, Liam Neeson and Helen Mirren in Excalibur, Katrine Boorman and Gabriel Byrne in Excalibur, Katrine Boorman, Helen Mirren and Cherie Lunghi in Excalibur, Madness, gaslighting and abuse: the dark story behind Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman. John Boorman had been pitching a film about the Arthur legend as far back as 1969 but was sidetracked for several years with trying to adapt Lord of the Rings – and then by directing the iffy Exorcist II: The Heretic – but Boorman, along with writing partner Rospo Pallenberg, returned to Arthur after Star Wars-inspired a resurgence in big screen fantasy, and Orion Pictures green-lit the project. “I remember being a little kid and there I was standing in a loin cloth in front of one of the sexiest women of earth,” recalls Charley Boorman.
“And we learnt very quickly not to stop when the rehearsed bit of the stunts and the action came to an end.
An old friend offered me the role in the movie and naturally I grabbed it, and I met Ewan on the first day of filming. His charismatic “let’s just do it” approach to challenges has won him over to a massive TV and literary audience. For the rest of Arthur’s court, John Boorman cast unknowns, some of whom made their debuts in a major production.
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