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Defiant vicar sends movie hardmen packing
A MILD-mannered vicar banned Sheffield's Holly-wood hardman Sean Bean from using his picturesque church for his latest movie, fearing the language and violence would be less than holy.
The Rev Nick Bromfield stood up to the Handsworth-born actor, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in his role as the maverick Major Sharpe, and told him he could not film in his Forest of Dean church.
Vertigo Films thought the 1,000-year-old St Mary the Virgin Church, in St Briavels, Gloucestershire would be the perfect location for part of their new vigilante movie, The Outlaw, also starring Bob Hoskins.
But after checking out director Nick Love's gangster flick, The Business, and reading about the plot, the vicar gave the Hollywood A-listers their marching orders.
He said: "It became pretty clear from the synopsis that The Outlaw was a film of a similar genre, and exceptionally violent. It became quite a simple decision to turn them down."
He offered an olive branch to the Hollywood stars and invited them around to the vicarage for afternoon tea.
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