Kenneth Branagh
October 11, 2006 | 1973 views

What was it like shooting in Warm Springs?
It was very, um... it was sort of eerie to be in Warm Springs. I visited twice, first when I saw the several small museum exhibits down there, which are terrific, which draw quite a number of visitors who want to see the place that Roosevelt visited really every year, bar a couple of years right in the middle of the Second World War.
When I first visited, the pools were still there, but not filled with water, because for reasons of the ancient nature of the actual pools themselves. But when I returned to shoot, and it'd been, redressed and repainted and recreated as the place itself, it was very moving, with everyone in period costumes, and the place full of other people, including many people with polio themselves, or who'd had spinal injuries... experiencing the unique kind of camaraderie of everyone there in the same position, and being part of this very charming place where the water was warm.
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