John Wilson

I hadn't worked on film for four years, and Joe Wright persuaded me to go in and do, in The Darkest Hour, a play opposite Gary Oldman, and that's an extraordinary experience.

This is the Churchill... The Churchill, yeah, yeah.

So working with Gary was just so exciting.

And I loved it so much that when this arrived, by then I was living in England and everyone around me was talking about McHeron, McHeron, McHeron, McHeron.

And so I, you know, got became intrigued.

And then Diana Tavenner.

Oh, yeah, I do that standing on my head.

Slightly harder than that.

Service standing order.

Whatever the hell it is.

If you say so.

I don't care if it's in Sanskrit.

It is therefore a reason.

If there's a hit on one of your team, you report it upwards, in this case to me.

Well, ordinarily I would have done, but there were special circumstances.

Which were?

I couldn't be asked.

That's not a special circumstance, Jackson.

That is your prevailing condition, and this time it might just prove terminal.

But having written and directed your film, My Mother's Wedding, actually, I think the production was about three years ago.