No. I did try to have an input there but I was met with steely gazes, they weren’t giving away any of their secrets. I suggested at one point, ‘If you are going to use our faces as a basis for the characters do you think that the Captain, the Major would have a moustache, it seems to me that he would like closely cropped hair and a moustache,’ and they said ‘No, we rather like what we’re seeing’.

I become sometimes a bit self-conscious in the studio because there is this big sheet of glass and they’re behind there and we’re acting away and doing various things and I look in and the artist is drawing me and I thought ‘What’s he doing? What have I just done?’. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.