Mark Kermode

So I arrived at Wednesday night, immediately had a panic attack and got a headache.

But...

bumped into a friend and Paul Laverty, actually.

And so talked to Paul Laverty about this, that and the other.

And that was very nice.

And then on the day, I sort of did my very best to just keep my head down.

And they do this really weird thing because I was introducing it.

We had to walk up the red carpet.

And so in order to get to the red carpet, they put you in a car that's...

quite literally 150 yards away from the red carpet and then you sit in the car for an hour in a like holding pattern like an airport and then they finally let you out and then they bring you up the thing and you all face one way and a whole bunch of photographers take your photograph and have no idea who you are and I don't think those photographs will appear anywhere because it was you know me and

Lacey Russell and Vicky Russell and not people who were immediately recognizable to the world.

And then you turn around and then you do the other bank.

Then you move up a bit more and then you face one bank and then you turn around and then you do the other.

And then you get to the top of the stairs.

And of course, I did what you're not meant to do is I took out my iPhone to take a picture of it.

And the iPhone was wrestled from my hand by the security guards.

And anyway, then when I did the introduction, it was packed.

Weirdly enough, it was the hot ticket that evening, getting tickets for the Devil's Director's Cut in the Salbonwell.

Peter Jackson was in the audience.

Wow.