Marina Hyde
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And their lovely failure to unionize in the same way because they have much more attractive labor laws and incentives.
But it's a great success story and we have a huge amount of it being made here.
And anyway, this drone incursion happened at Leavesden, a place I know very well because I've shot various things there.
And they have a huge collection of sound stages.
Like all studios, they're kind of this Dijon mustard colour.
They've currently got more than 20.
Some of them are 50,000 square foot.
They're really enormous.
It's been constantly expanding ever since I went there, which I think must have been in 2018.
Do you think it's because of you?
No, but you're shocked if you have six months away and they've built another load of stuff.
The backlot is enormous.
That alone is about, I think, 100 acres or something.
And that's where you would build.
The backlot's interesting and relevant to the story because it's where you'd build.
Explain what a backlot is.
A backlot is the bit that's not covered.
So say you've got these big kind of like almost like corrugated iron buildings.
Those are the stages.
And you can't see what's happening in there for obvious reasons.