28 h. ago Is Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs' new movie The Salt Path based on a true story?

The Salt Path stars Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson as a couple who embark on a 630-mile walk after suffering a number of life-changing setbacks - but is the new movie based on a true story?

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63 h. ago Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path

Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir about her and her husband’s 630-mile trek around England’s south coast has become a film. Its stars, makers and Winn talk floods, fog and forgiveness‘I have played a lot of powerful, well-dressed women in my career,” says Gillian Anderson. They flash before your eyes: Margaret Thatcher (The Crown), Eleanor Roosevelt (The First Lady), Emily Maitlis (the Prince Andrew/Newsnight drama Scoop) – as well as the formidable sex therapist in the Netflix hit Sex Education, a role that led to her being inundated with dildos from over-enthusiastic fans. “These are all women in control of themselves and their environment. Any time I have an opportunity to steer against that, particularly lately, it’s of interest to me.”There is steering in another direction, and then there is the screeching handbrake turn represented by her role in The Salt Path, adapted from Raynor Winn’s 2018 memoir of homelessness and hope along the coastline of England’s south-west. Playing W...

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3 d. ago The Salt Path is a tale of homelessness that’s just too neat and tidy

Based on the true story of a couple blighted by a painful diagnosis and the loss of their home, this drama ultimately becomes yet another pat story about how reconnecting with nature is good for the soul

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4 d. ago The Salt Path review – Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs hike from ruin to renewal

Marianne Elliott directs this affecting drama, based on Raynor Winn’s memoir, which builds steadily as the couple journey towards redemptionThis film gives cinema one of the most nail-biting scenes of the year so far: an edge-of-the-seat moment as Gillian Anderson puts her bank card into a cash machine. Is there enough money in the account? Everything is at stake. This impressive, intelligent drama is an adaptation of Raynor Winn’s memoir about walking the South West Coast Path from Somerset to Dorset, with her husband, Moth. Unlike other hikers, the couple were not walking for pleasure – at least not to begin with. They had nowhere else to go after losing their farm. From theatre director Marianne Elliott, it stars two fancy actors – Anderson and Jason Isaacs – both giving lovely, emotional, low-key performances.In flashback we see the bailiffs banging at the door, evicting the couple, who are in their 50s, from the home in which they raised their kids, now flown the nest to univer...

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5 d. ago 'Paradise' town on the real Salt Path has dolphins and hidden coves

Salcombe in Devon is one of the many pretty seaside towns that sit on the South West Coast Path, which runs from Minehead in Somerset, along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, to Poole Harbour in Dorset

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6 d. ago Gillian Anderson was ‘profoundly affected’ by memoir that inspired The Salt Path

The film follows a couple who complete the 1,000km South West Coast Path after losing their home.

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7 d. ago Inside the 10 stunning UK beaches in new Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs film The Salt Path

Set to hit cinemas on May 30, The Salt Path starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs is likely to one of the summer's biggest movies.

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9 d. ago We lost everything and became homeless in our 50s just as my husband was diagnosed with an incurable disease

Raynor Winn is the author of The Salt Path, based on her own experience of being made homeless. Now her book has been made into a film starring Gillian Anderson.

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3 w. ago Gillian Anderson says Sex Education made her realise she had ‘no shame’ around sex

Actor played Jean Milburn in the hit Netflix series

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