A director who likes to throw himself into the world of his films, Wright brought on Russian historian Orlando Figes to gen up the cast on 1870s Russian society. The Method approach stretched to facial furniture, too. Here's Wright sporting the "sympathy moustache" he grew to keep Taylor-Wood, Macfadyen and the rest company. His DoP, Seamus McGarvey (left), a veteran of Atonement and more recently, The Avengers, stayed 'tache free.