How was it filming in the EastEnd, specifically around Whitechapel?
I think you actually had to be there, you couldn’t have cheated that, it’s a unique part of London. You’ve got cobbles, you’ve got these really dark alleyways, and I had to march up and down this very dark passage way, which we imagine hasn’t changed very much, it still had gas lamps in it. It was a very very narrow little passageway that they’d found, and it has this very strange sort of skull insignia embedded in the top of it. What it signifies I have no idea, but it was very creepy. But then you turn around and you see the gherkin or you see neon signs and the Indian takeaway. That juxtaposition was fantastic. But when we were filming, when I’m doing the actual Ripper tours, we were held up by the real Ripper tours who wanted to be doing there bit where we were standing. So I think they were a bit annoyed with us that we were filming on their patch! Where was the alleyway with the skull? I can’t remember exactly. It was when we were filming the Mitre Square sequence, which happens
