CRAWLEY CRASHES AND BURNS

Though it premiered in Cannes amid great fanfare, The Girl I Left Behind had the lowest opening box-office weekend of any film released so far this year.

The London-set, World War Two spy drama, considered to be a breakout vehicle for Rawdon Crawley, son of Sir Pitt Crawley, was widely panned by critics for its ‘lumpen script, heavy-handed direction and soulless performance from the hotly tipped Crawley,’ as Thomas Coffin wrote in a particularly savage one-star review in the Guardian.

The bad news doesn’t end there for Rawdon Crawley. Filming on his latest project, How to Live Well on Nothing a Year, was temporarily suspended due to a dispute between director, Archie Auteur, and production company, Chopper Films, over costs spiralling out of control.

No sooner had filming resumed when it stopped again after Crawley sustained lacerations to his face and a broken nose in what his publicist described as ‘a bad case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.’ However, on-set gossip is that Crawley, living up to his hell-raiser reputation, was involved in a bar fight.

Happily for the troubled production, Auteur felt that the actor’s facial injuries added piquancy to his role as a gangster involved in a turf war between rival Parisian gangs, and filming resumed.

Is How to Live Well on Nothing a Year doomed before it’s even wrapped? Watch this space!