Award-winning costume designer Charlotte Mitchell has revealed her sadness after 20 years of kit was 'destroyed' in Bristol harbour incident yesterday (October 21).
The costume designer for Killing Eve and Outlaws took to Twitter to lament her loss after a production lorry ended up in the water.
There were extraordinary scenes at the floating harbour since first thing yesterday morning. A lorry went backwards over the dock into the water.
The cab was stuck on the dock, while much of the trailer was submerged in the muddy waters.
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The driver was understood to have been shaken, but unharmed, in the accident.
The recovery lasted most of the day, with the accident happening around 7am and the vehicle only being recovered from the water shortly before 4pm.
The trailer contained the costumes for season two of Bristol-legend Stephen Merchant’s new TV show, The Outlaws.
The first season is yet to air, with the show premiering on Monday, October 25 at 9pm on BBC One.
Costume designer Charlotte Mitchell tweeted her sadness at her costume truck meeting “an unfortunate end”.
Ms Mitchell is an award-winning costume designer, having worked on hit productions such as Killing Eve, Doctor Who, Harlots 2, and The Pale Horse, among many more.
She said that she has spent 20 years collecting kit for her work on productions, saying: “it’s now probably destroyed”.
Ms Mitchell did note that it was “positive” that nobody was hurt in the unfortunate accident.
She added that filming for season two of The Outlaws had already wrapped, so the production schedule is not affected.
Bristol icon Stephen Merchant has not yet commented on yesterday’s accident, but a production spokesperson said yesterday: “An accident occurred involving one of our production vehicles. No one was hurt or in the vehicle. We are investigating what happened.”
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