ReelReveal #78

Its director had already bought another schizophrenia story for $1.5 million with Brad Pitt attached, and dropped it in 1998 when its real-life subject killed his fiancée during a psychotic episode. The producer bought this one off a Vanity Fair excerpt. Charlotte Church, fifteen, sings the soprano line on the score, and the makeup team invented a silicone that halved the daily ageing job from eight hours to four.