I remember Brody Neuenschwander talking about being the ’hand double’ for John Gielgud’s Prospero in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books. Apparently Gielgud had very fine hands, and Brody was embarassed that his own were not as elegant. But his calligraphy was stunning. I remember watching a clip from the beginning of the film during the 1995 ATypI conference in Barcelona, and there was an audible gasp of admiration at the rapid execution of a particularly elegant swash d.