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Designing Conclave

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Production designer Suzie Davies reveals the secrets behind the 2024 film Conclave, explaining how she managed to build the Sistine Chapel in a film studio in Rome

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Tom Goulding

In a case of life imitating art, interest in the film Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, has rocketed following the death of Pope Francis and the meeting of cardinals to elect a new pontiff.

While the machinations of the conclave are a closely guarded secret, the mysteries of how production designer Suzie Davies was able to re-create the Vatican for this adaptation of Robert Harris’s page-turner are thrown wide open in this episode of In the Studio. She tells presenter Francine Stock about the meticulous work that went into conjuring this closed-off world.

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