1917 film: James Bond’s Sam Mendes and Roger Deakins on Skyfall team-up and MORE

The WW1 movie could be headed for BAFTA and Oscars’ glory after its big wins at the Golden Globes on Sunday. 1917 director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins have worked together on a number of films, with the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall being a highlight. During a press conference last month, Express.co.uk asked what influence their 007 team-up had on 1917, which is just as gorgeously shot.

Mendes, who has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours List said: “You bring all the things you’ve done together into the relationship.

“We’ve done four movies now together and, I think, it becomes almost at times telepathic.

“You know each others’ tastes very well, and trust each other hopefully.

“And the best days are sometimes the days where you say almost nothing to each other.”

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He added: “Our conversations were just the beginning of the whole process and the foundations of everything.”

Meanwhile, Deakins felt that their team-up on Jarhead helped “inform” shooting 1917.

He added: “I think Jarhead really informed a lot. Although very different in technique to this, because that was all handheld, but emotionally the same in trying to get the same connection between the camera and the character.

“I felt that really informed quite a lot for us.”

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1917 is cleverly edited to make it look as though the whole movie were one take.

Understandably, to capture the footage, actors had to make sure they didn’t make a single mistake or they’d have to start again.

On the challenging shoot, Mendes said: “You can have seven minutes of magic and then if someone trips or a lighter doesn’t work or they just do something normal like they forget half a line, you’ve got to start again and none of it is usable.

“We did seesaw between thinking, ‘why are we doing this to ourselves?’ and thinking ‘this is the only way to work’.”