I was so proud when some of my dressed furniture was used in the dolls house which features in the Steven Spielberg version of Roald Dahl’s ‘The BFG’ film!
I had been contacted by a film company in Vancouver, Canada, late in 2015, and they bought several room sets from me, I did a little research on the film project name provided, and realised that it could be the Steven Spielberg version of The BFG by Roald Dhal.
I contacted the buyer and asked if she could confirm the name of the film – as it was one of my daughters favourite stories and would earn me a lot of brownie points! The reply came back that, although she could not confirm the film name, my daughter would be happy.
And that was all I knew until we went to the cinema…
With fingers crossed I had a giant(!) surprise when I took my daughter Sophie to see the film. About 10 minutes into the film, the little girl (also called Sophie) goes up to a dolls house, opens the doors, the shot moves over, and there, across the full cinema screen was a bedroom suite I had made. It was so funny – the cinema was silent – I saw my bedroom suite – and I squeaked out loud!
I was so excited when we came out of the show that I bought one of the cinema posters as a souvenir – this also meant I stayed behind after the show finished and didn’t have to face all the people who turned to look at me when I squeaked at a totally uncalled for moment in the film!’