When Ralph Fiennes walks into a room, you feel his presence before you see him.
So says 20-year-old Oliver (Ollie) Briscombe, who stars alongside the Bafta and Emmy award-winning actor and director in new film The Choral.
The movie tells the story of a choral society which lost its male members during World War One, and was largely filmed in Saltaire, near Bradford.
Ollie, from Ripon, North Yorkshire, plays Lofty, who delivers telegrams in the fictional town of Ramsden, thought to be partly based on Huddersfield.
“He’s very innocent,” he says of his character.
“He doesn’t understand the world he’s stepping into.”
Appearing alongside Ollie, playing another chorister, is Anna Cook, 13, from York.
Her part includes singing a solo rendition of Land of Hope and Glory, to try and persuade a chorister not to go to war.
