To give Joaquin Phoenix the answer, Ridley Scott first set his sights on Jodie Comer, the star of the series. Kill Evein which he had previously directed The last duel. For several months, the young woman repeated her enthusiasm at the idea of being part of the adventure. But in January 2022, as filming approached, she gave up due to repeated delays related to the Covid pandemic. In the end it was Vanessa Kirby, who played Princess Margaret in the series The crownwho inherits the role.
The team finally complete, filming began in February in the UK, in the Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire regions where no fewer than six battle sequences have been reconstructed, probably including Waterloo. Ridley Scott also installed his cameras in the eastern England coastal town of Lincoln, where the local cathedral helped recreate the Madonna, presumably to stage the emperor’s coronation in December 1804.
