Acting in GO NOW

RC on researching the role of MS sufferer Nick Cameron:

"I had to do the most research I've ever had to do for this particular role. I spent an awful lot of time in multiple sclerosis centres in Glasgow and Bristol, just watching and looking. It was a very difficult thing. At times, I felt like a parasite, a leech, sucking blood from these people. Some of them had had the illness 20 years and I was talking to them, regressing them back 20 years and saying, 'can you tell me how it felt to be told that'. Most of the people burst into tears and that's a very harrowing thing to do. Maybe the kind of research that went into it made the film stronger in a way."

"Carlyle delivers a performance of such power and pathos in Go Now it can only serve to cement his reputation as one of Britain's most distinguished young actors."

(Weekend Australian 19 Oct 1996)

"Puckish Scot Carlyle is an actor of such rare versatility that whatever part he plays - be it Trainspotting's psychotic Begbie, the forbidden love object of Priest or the shrewd constable in the TV series Hamish Macbeth - fairly bristles with conviction. In Go Now, a punchy, sometimes funny drama about a young man coming to terms with multiple sclerosis, his gutsy Nick is a footy-playing Jack-the -Lad . . ."

(Who, 18/11/96)

"What follows is a gut-wrenching portrayal of a man whose life has just fallen on its backside. The first three stages of grief - denial, anger and depression - are brought to the screen with clear ferocity and force by Carlyle's Nick."

(West Australian Nov. 1996)

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