Aidan Turner plays the Renaissance genius in the TV series Leonardo. Filming ground to a halt in March, but has started againOn a film set near Rome this week the Irish actor Aidan Turner, sporting tights and a long beard, was getting into character as the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, near the hand-sanitiser dispenser. Along an alleyway on the set, 15th-century soldiers were loitering in armour waiting for their scene and looking totally authentic except for their bright blue surgical masks. “These days the director yells, ‘Lights, camera, action and take your mask off!” joked Luca Bernabei, head of Lux Vide, the production company which owns the studio. Filming of the TV series Leonardo restarted on June 15, the first big production in Italy to do so as the country emerges from lockdown, and the studio is taking no chances with Covid-19, swabbing

Source: The Times June 28, 2020 17:03 UTC