After drawing crowds and protests at Lincoln Cathedral, production on the film version of The Da Vinci Code moved to Scotland's Rosslyn Chapel this week.
The chapel, a key location in the Dan Brown novel - whose account of a big cover-up in the Christian tradition has attracted millions of fans and fierce protests from believers - has been closed for a week to allow filming on the premises. Yesterday, numerous fans were attempting to break the security fences to catch a glimpse of stars Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, who play Harvard professor Robert Langdon and sidekick Sophie Neveu.
Da Vinci Code fans Alison Hughes, 60, and her husband Robert, 62, who had come all the way from New Zealand to visit the chapel, near Edinburgh, were annoyed at being refused entry. "We told the police we had come specially from New Zealand, but it didn't make any difference," Mrs Hughes told The Scotsman newspaper. "We will just have to live with it, but it's a pain."
Another fan, nursing student Kirsty Smith, 21, tried to get close to the film set, only to be turned away. ""I know all the secret routes round the glen leading to the chapel," she said. "I went down the back way and got down to a footpath near the chapel this morning, but all I could see were wooden fences that had been put up round the chapel.
"All I wanted was to see Tom Hanks. He is such a big, big star. Everyone in the world has heard of him and he's here. A security guard asked me what I wanted then told me to move."
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