Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman amongst film crew and extras take a strole along
Berwicks walls while filming an adaptation of Eric Lomax's The Railway Man
A HAND-WRITTEN letter of thanks from Oscar winning actor Colin Firth is to be framed by a Berwick hotel owner who sent him a cake in the shape of a steam train.
The cake was sent to Firth during filming in Berwick and Holy Island of The Railway Man in which he plays war hero Eric Lomax who still lives in the town.
Elizabeth Middlemiss, who sent the cake as a welcome present, said she was “thrilled to bits” by the handwritten letter she had just received.
She had ordered the cake from local baker Robert Whitton, who also baked one for Nicole Kidman, as she had been told that leading members of the cast were to stay at Sallyport, her boutique hotel on Bridge Street.
However only the camera crew turned up while the stars stayed at Tillmouth Park Hotel, near Cornhill.
Although disappointed, Elizabeth decided to give the cakes to the camera crew to take to the stars.
“I gave them a note with them and suggested to Colin that if he didn’t want to eat it himself then he could maybe give it to Eric who is now 92. After all he is the real hero,” she explained.
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