Caprice experienced Christmas movie 'miracle'
Caprice had a "Christmas miracle" when it snowed while she was shooting a festive movie in Serbia.
Caprice experienced a “Christmas miracle” when making her festive movie.
The 53-year-old model produced and stars in ‘A European Christmas’, which was filmed in Serbia, and she was thrilled when it started to snow mid-shoot as the production budget hadn’t covered the cost of faking such wintery conditions.
She told new! Magazine: “I absolutely fell in love with Zlatibor. It’s such a gorgeous place. We flew out in January last year and the entire village kept their Christmas decorations up for us.
“With Christmas movies, you have to have snow but with my budget, I couldn’t afford to make it.
“I don’t know what it was but something magical happened – they only had three days of snow in Zlatibor the entire season and that’s when we were filming.
“We moved everything around in the schedule and shot all out outside scenes during those three days. It was crazy – our very own Christmas miracle.”
Caprice – who plays a failing film director in the movie opposite Philip Boyd as her leading man – did her own stunts, but the snow caused some chaos.
However, the moment was so funny, it ended up in the finished film.
She explained: “I had to pretend that I couldn’t ski down this mountain and crash into a tree.
“And I only had one take to do it, which is quite tricky to do.
“I said, ‘Excuse me?You want me, in one take, to ski off-piste down this mountain and figure out how I’m going to bump into the tree and fall down?’
“I thought they were joking. I’m a good skier but even I didn’t think I could make it work.
“Luckily, I managed to do it. I did hit the tree, not too hard, and then I fell backwards.
“But what I didn’t know, when I fell, was that all the snow from the branches would come piling down on to me!
“I had mascara everywhere, I had eyeliner everywhere and my face froze.
“Of course, the whole crew were laughing uncontrollably. They left it all in there.
“It wasn’t part of the script but turned out to be this hilarious – and authentic – moment.”