 When looking at the casting of the Prime Minister,  Anthony Hopkins (qv), Michael Gambon (qv) and  Michael Crawford (I) (qv) had been three possible candidates. But  all three had been unavailable at the time of filming (Hopkins was  working on _Human Stain, The (2003)_ (qv), Gambon on  _Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban (2004)_ (qv) and Crawford  had returned to Broadway to star in the English version of Dance of  the Vampires).