Jim Latrache

By the way, why did you tell the people on the island I was there to build a hospital?

Because it's quite important to have that bit in the film, because otherwise you would watch the film and say, what a horrible crew, they have manipulated all those people.

So it was quite important for us that that idea didn't come from us.

What I was saying, to introduce you as a friendly party to the people on the island, because we don't want them to know

that it is a transaction that is going on between the landlord and us.

And this is why you told them that I was there to build the hospital?

Yes, the hospital.

Then he said that it's because then we will have no problem with them because it turned out that there's a law in Uganda that if

if you build your houses in a certain way because they live there illegally.

I mean, they live there because they have nowhere else to live.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But

If they build up their houses in a certain way, then you cannot remove them.

And if they were told that I bought the island and I wanted to have them fucked off, then they would start to build their houses in that way and we would not be able to kick them off the island.

So the reason why he said that was for them just to be happy that a hospital would come and then in four months we could...

And I'd say, how many people live there?

And he'd say a few hundred.

But when we had a helicopter later, when I showed the island to the North Korean, I realised there lived thousands of people.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

There's thousands.