Express (UK) Onegin blurb

November 17, 1999

Cold Comfort for the Fiennes clan

All available members of the glittering Fiennes clan fetched up at Monday night's London premiere of Onegin starring Ralph Fiennes, as the eponymous hero, sister Martha as director and brother Magnus as composer of the score.

It was a wonder that some made it at all. At the post-premiere party at the ICA on the Mall it emerged that the filming of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, yook place in the sub-zero tempoeratures of St Petersburg. "You had to forget the night shoots and that it was minus 20 degrees and just keep taking the wonderful vodka," confided 35-year-old Martha, pictured here with Ralph.

Ralph, it seems took even more chances. "I was meant to have TB jabs before I went but I chickened out," he confided. Joseph,"almost-as-famous-as-Ralph" was feeling a mite left out. "I would have loved to have done the film too," he whispered, "but they chose a time when I was working on Shakespeare in Love. Do you think they were trying to tell me something?"