{"id":758678,"date":"2026-09-03T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758678\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:26:09","slug":"trailer-released-for-onwards-and-sideways-shot-in-north-norfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758678\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer released for Onwards and Sideways shot in north Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Onwards and Sideways, which was previously called But When We Dance, will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will then be released in UK cinemas on November 6 and later appear on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"The film will premiere this month\"\/>Rhys Ifans plays the role of Tony Evans (Image: SIDEWAYS AND BACKWARDS)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The film, starring Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney, is a touching story about two people who have lots in common &#8211; including Parkinson\u2019s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ifans plays the role of Tony Evans, the deputy head of a local primary school, while\u00a0Linney portrays\u00a0Emma Dretzin, a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"The film will premiere this month\"\/>The film was shot in north Norfolk last year (Image: SIDEWAYS AND BACKWARDS)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The characters do not know each other until an encounter changes the course of their lives when, on the same morning, they are both\u00a0diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Filming took place in parts of north Norfolk last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25598234.bbc-drama-dance-starts-filming-fakenham\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">including Fakenham<\/a>, and is also set in the area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Monica Dolan, from Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Black Mirror, and Rory Kinnear, who is in The Diplomat on Netflix, also star in the 90-minute film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Onwards and Sideways, which was previously called But When We Dance, will debut at the Toronto International Film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}