Ashley Walters ‘faked’ Ackley Bridge scenes after dogs wreaked havoc on set

OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Ackley Bridge’ director Ashley Walters had to use fake shots after dogs caused chaos on set.
The fifth season of the West Yorkshire-based school drama series is set to return to Channel 4 on Monday (11.07.22), and the ‘Top Boy’ actor – who serves as series director -has opened up on the difficulties he faced after trying to incorporate some dogs into the show to act as pet pooches for pupil Kyle Dobson (Adam Little).
However, the badly behaved mutts wreaked so much havoc on set that he had to resort to filming trickery in order to shoot a few scenes.
Ashley, 40, told the Daily Star newspaper’s Hot TV coolumn:“I had done pretty much everything expect working with dogs. That was a tough one. I’m a dog lover but I didn’t really love dogs by the end of the shoot.
“No matter how well trained they are they are a law unto themselves. The dog we had playing Kyle’s dog, Tyson, didn’t want to do anything when the cameras turned over.”
Ashley went on to reveal his cunning methods when shooting the scenes which involved manipulating the edits.
He said: “I had to work out some real cunning ways to shoot him. So a lot of the times you see the dog in a scene he hasn’t been shot with any of the actors. I’ve shot him independently and just spend loads of times trying to get the right reactions from him and then cut them together in the edit, which I didn’t want to do.
“But in order to keep the actors energised and get their best takes and best performances out of them I had to do it that way.
“If I get another script as a director and there’s loads of scenes with dogs or cats, I might have to think about it, but we got there in the end.”
Meanwhile, ‘Casualty’ star Sunetra Sarker, who plays student support officer Kaneez Paracha on the show, shared her own fear of dogs and admitted she’d much rather work with children than with pets.
She said: “I’m so scared of animals. I don’t have that ease that everybody seems to have around cats and dogs. I think it’s also because I’m such a chatterbox but dogs and cats can’t talk to me so I don’t spend time enjoying their company.”

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