Hollywood star Bob Hoskins comes to Croydon for filming
Hollywood actor Bob Hoskins steps onto the set of new Brit movie, Dagenham Girls, which is currently filming in Croydon.
The film is “an inspirational and feel-good story” focusing on the heroine, Rita, a feisty factory worker who inadvertently challenges one of the biggest corporations in the world.
Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally laid down their tools in 1968 when they are reclassified as unskilled.
It has been written by William Ivory and will be directed by Nigel Cole who rose to fame with the hit film Calendar Girls.
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