Making World on Fire Season 1

(enchanting music) - It's amazing how international the cast is, which is so exciting.

- Couple Americans, a lot of British people, Poles, people from Czechoslovakia, Germany.

- That's also true to the war.

It's an international thing and I think it's important that we're telling the stories, not of one country, but of many.

- It's touching for me that we are playing in an international production which tells this history, which was very, very important for us Poles.

- This is Nancy Campbell, American Radio International, from Warsaw.

I don't know that I have been the only American around.

- I did meet Helen in the makeup trailer.

- I heard his accent in the makeup trailer and I went, "Oh my god, you too!"

- I was shaving at the sink and talking to someone and Helen kind of turned around and she goes, "Oh, an American."

When you hear an American accent on set, you're like, "This is weird," because it is such a European story and America hasn't come into the war yet.

So it's really interesting to see how the presence of just these few Americans, it's such an odd thing in this story.

- It's so cinematic, it's so rich and it's colorful.

You can see how cold it is outside, you have your smoke.

You can't help but be transported.

- It's been such a privilege to work with Lesley Manville.

She is such a warm person.

We're able to sit and have laugh, but then when we go on set together, she transforms into Robina, and I was actually really happy that we hadn't really had much of a chance to sit down and speak before we did the first scenes together because our first scenes that we did together, I was actually very intimidated by her.

I know Harry.

He's not like that.

- No man is ever like that.

Until they are.

- I don't think of myself as being a very good dancer, but I got told once by my drama teacher, that same as acting as with dancing, just throw yourself in and it will always come out better.

- I will always remember filming the dancing scene because Adam, our director, said, "You know guys, "we'll start and just don't do your best on the first take "because probably we'll go again and again and again."

But, me and Jonah I think we really went for it totally from the very first take to the last and we had so much fun.

- And, as a day out on set, it was one of my favorite days.

Working with Zofia has been brilliant.

She's so fun.

When you go away on location and you're away for a while, it can be unsettling at times, but when you have a crew and a cast and someone like Zofia, it makes it much easier because you feel like you have a community and a home.