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In the best of all worlds, the cast of Sky-HBO’s Chernobyl would have been speaking in Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles, says series director Johan Renck. Speaking at ‘The Making of Chernobyl’ as part of this year’s online Bafta Television: The Sessions series, Renck explained that there had been discussions about making the nuclear disaster drama in Russian and Ukrainian instead of English but ultimately, it proved unfeasible for the international co-production.  Was it ever planned for Jared Harris, who played nuclear scientist Valery Legasov in the multiple Bafta-nominated drama, to speak his lines in English using a Russian accent? No. ‘That…