Of course Ben Kingsley had... had to play the role of Gandhi from when he was about 26 until he died in his mid 70s, so it was a 50-year span. And so for the early period when he was young, he wore a... a wig, black hair, because he had a certain amount of hair but not as much as that. And I had to light him to look as young as possible, and then through the course of the film he gradually ages until he's the very old man. Now we had a marvellous makeup man called Tom Smith and Ben used to go into makeup for a couple of hours. And, he'd had his head shaved of course and Tom had sort of, little flaky bits he put on his skin and he actually painted the ageing lines. They weren't prosthetics; it was drawn with a pencil. And it was really a work of art. And Ben would come on set in the morning out of makeup as the old man — dressed in his loin cloth — and he stood like an old man and moved like an old man. And we've rehearsed the scene and because I knew I would perhaps be 20 minutes setting everything up I said... I said to Ben one... one day, I said, ’Oh Ben’ I said, ’Why don't you have a sit down while... while we get ready?’ Because I really felt... I believed that I was in the presence of this frail old man and... and Ben, he just looked to me and smiled and he nodded his head the... the way Indians do and... he was 36 and I was 50, and so... he was so convincing and it was such a performance. I mean it was you know... it really... his performance was... I... I think carried the film in many ways, it was so convincing.