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Aug 30, 2020 · How Strike filmed Tom Burke’s missing leg scenes. The BBC series and actor Tom Burke used some ingenious techniques to portray the amputated limb of private detective Cormoran Strike.
Jul 23, 2018 · If you’ve watched the show, you’ll know that Cormoran Strike, the show’s title character played by Tom Burke, has an amputated leg. Radio Times investigated how the team behind Strike made this look so accurate, despite Tom Burke being able-bodied.
Feb 25, 2018 · Tom’s character Strike is a war veteran turned private detective who investigates brutal murders in London. Strike lost one of his legs in combat, which has led some viewers of the show to ...
Dec 23, 2022 · Holliday Grainger (Robin Ellacott) told RadioTimes that Tom had embraced the character in a way that she sometimes forgets that he has two legs. The actor exclaimed that she gets brainwashed and tries to help him in between the scenes as though he is disabled.
Tom Burke (born 30 June 1981) is an English actor. He played Athos in the 2014–2016 BBC TV series The Musketeers, Dolokhov in the 2016 BBC literary-adaptation miniseries War & Peace, the eponymous character Cormoran Strike in the BBC series Strike, and Orson Welles in the 2020 film Mank.
Apr 10, 2017 · Tom Burke is playing the lead role, but he has two whole legs…. According to a crew member I met in Masham back in January, for close-up shots of Strike’s missing limb, they’re using a body double who is a real amputee and was on set quite frequently.
Mar 4, 2018 · Viewers have been left stunned by BBC mystery series Strike, particularly how they shot Cormoran Strike amputated leg scenes so seamlessly. Actor Tom Burke does not have an amputated leg...
The on-screen representation of the leg is flawlessly authentic, as we see him remove the prosthetic, massage ointments into the stump or move around without it. “That’s all credit to CGI and ...
Aug 15, 2017 · His leg is part of his character but it’s not used as a motif that takes us from A to B in the narrative. How, practically, did you deal with it?
Aug 16, 2017 · We were invited to a press roundtable where we got the chance to chat with Tom Burke before the BFI screening of Strike: The Cuckoo’s Calling. Below is a clip of Tom discussing how he perfected the role of Strike and how he learnt to move when pretending to have half a leg missing.
