Cock and Bull

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A Cock and Bull Story, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy

In his Journals, John Fowles records an incident during the filming of The French Lieutenant’s Woman. The film-makers had adapted the novel’s postmodern structure by making it in part a film about making the film of the novel. At one point Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, while supposedly filming a scene from the novel, are supposed to have a bitter personal argument. After a day spent filming this, one of the technicians on the set remarked on how unprofessional the actors were, letting a personal argument get in the way of filming like that.