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Stunt co-ordinator Glenn Marks used a stripped-out car for the two-part riot special because a real car fire could be hazardous
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‘Rioters’ take on ‘the police’ and hurl bricks made of foam in a carefully planned staged fight for the cameras
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A make-up artist applies fake blood and wounds
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Off-duty policemen and ex-military men worked as stuntmen
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The ‘rioters’ are also former coppers and soldiers
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Sarah Savage, who plays an allergy victim, spent hours in make-up being covered in red welts. “They’re silicone patches,” she explains. “I look like something out of Nightmare on Elm Street!”
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Matt Bardock, who plays paramedic Jeff Collier, watches scenes just filmed. “When I first did Casualty in 1991 I played a rioter who burned the hospital down! Now I’m an old git fighting his way through a riot.”
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