![]() ![]() As a reward for his work, he was given a small role in the film as the King’s Messenger. ![]() Though he was cut out of the film and Hayward’s two halves spliced together in order to appear opposite himself, Cushing learned much about film acting from the experience as he was allowed to watch dailies and critique his own performance. Hayward played twins in the film and Cushing played the opposite role for each take. Considering his future fame playing a certain Baron, it is an amusing coincidence that Peter Cushing’s very first job in the movies was under the direction of James Whale, director of the classic 1931 Frankenstein, as a double for star Louis Hayward in The Man in the Iron Mask(1939). ![]()
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