I've been trying to find a copy of the painting that was especially made and shown in the film but I can't it? if anybody has it can they please put it on here. I'm talking about the movie version not a copy of the real one.
shareI'm going from memory here and I'm sorry I can't link a source. If my memory is correct, this following was from one of the videos of the publicity tour that Amma Asante (the director) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw did, in which Amma Asante said that when they came to view the scenes that included the movie painting, Dido's face in the painting wasn't recognisable enough. So they CGI improved the scene to make it more obviously Gugu's face.
If that's correct, a copy of the painting itself won't look as good as in the finished film. Perhaps there's a still of that scene out there. I haven't found one but I'd be interested too.
The movie painting https://www.instagram.com/p/BPbX-ItF1kA/?taken-by=dnanigo
The original Dido Elizabeth painting https://www.instagram.com/p/BPbYYRBFQAA/?taken-by=dnanigo
Note: Cropped both images for Instagram posting.
Thanks so much! For once it seems the real life women were as beautiful as the women who played them in the movie.
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