The Pool in Goa + Nigel
The Pool is directed by Chris Smith
The film and story were changing on a daily basis. One of the great things about the way we were working was that it was completely fluid. We were editing as we went along—so that had a huge impact on the finished film as well.
—Chris Smith (popMatters)
Another review from Indiewire
Greencinedaily on Chris Smith and the Pool
Chris Smith Interview – Filmmaker
Filmmaker: When did you first read Randy Russell’s short story? And when did you decide you want to transpose it to Goa?
Smith: I’m always looking for something that looks interesting and engaging. For me, it was one of those stories that I read and then came back to. It just sort of stuck with me; it was so simple and some of the themes seemed so universal. I thought back to the experience I had when I was in India about four or five years ago helping some friends shoot a movie, where we were living at that hotel and interacting with the roomboys and getting a sense of their lives. The idea of putting those two worlds together seemed really interesting to me, and I thought the two could be combined in a way that could provide a lot of rich material to work from.
2)The kids didn’t know how to read so for me it was more important to get a good performance than to get word-for-word.
The Fool with King Lear 
Hiroyuki Sanada and Nigel Hawthorne
2002 – Helen Mirren on Nigel Hawthorne [1/5] (Helen appeared with Nigel in Madness of King George)
A loving tribute and documentary film about Nigel Hawthorn – 5 parts on youtube. (Really enjoyed this documentary. Nigel visits Cape Town Africa where he grew up in addition to his visits to Japan where he played King Lear).