‘Heath Ledger knocked my tooth out jousting with a broom’ : how we made A Knight’s Tale

‘The lances were made of balsa wood and filled with uncooked spaghetti – so that when they broke, there’d be an explosion of what looked like splinters’ I wrote and directed the Mel Gibson film Payback but got fired during post-production. It was my first film as director and I thought my career (…)