00:00 We're here for David's story today.
00:01 - Yes.
00:02 - And obviously it was one of the films
00:04 which you were at the helm of,
00:05 of when he had his accident and everything.
00:07 I mean, just if we can, to look back,
00:10 what were your memories from that time?
00:13 - It was very, yeah, I remember the day very well.
00:16 It was, there were multiple units as there always were.
00:19 So those days are packed full of things.
00:21 Everyone's working in their own zones.
00:24 So the stunt department, the visual effects department,
00:26 the model unit, the main unit.
00:29 And so I got the message fed through to me
00:32 that there'd been an accident.
00:33 And then slowly you start to get more
00:36 and more information coming through.
00:38 And I mean, you know, a film production, as you know,
00:43 is a, it's a sort of machine that keeps turning.
00:47 And so we got all the help we could to Davey
00:51 and Davey was taken to a hospital.
00:53 And you just, you just had to keep going.
00:57 'Cause there were many sort of layers to the production,
01:01 but it affected everybody, I think,
01:04 especially Greg, who was there for that particular stunt
01:08 and everyone who knew Davey and particularly Daniel.
01:12 So it was, and things changed after that.
01:15 There was a big shift in how that gag
01:18 or that stunt was performed.
01:21 It was a massive learning process for everybody involved.
01:25 And rather worryingly, we'd been doing that particular stunt
01:30 with actors as well as stunt people.
01:33 So it's but for the grace of God, you know,
01:36 but it was a very, it was a very distressing day,
01:42 but we pushed on with a lot of the work that day,
01:46 knowing that in one of our departments
01:48 and one section of this big factory machine
01:51 of making this big movie, this event had happened.
01:55 - And finally for me, I did hear you say
01:56 that you're a bit Harry Potter down
01:58 and therefore may not be involved
01:59 in the upcoming HBO series.
02:02 Would you give your two cents if you're asked for it?
02:04 Are you happy to contribute if anyone can?
02:05 A direct or direct to you, like how did you do it?
02:08 - Do you know the most important thing
02:09 is to interpret those books in the way
02:12 that you feel is right for now.
02:13 And that's the great thing about those stories.
02:16 They feel universal.
02:18 Whatever culture these films and these books land in,
02:21 people get it.
02:23 And so the thing is to just honor your own vision for them
02:27 and stay true to that.
02:29 And the one big piece of advice I would have
02:32 was when we were making them,
02:33 it was quite challenging for a young cast
02:36 to be guided through that process.
02:39 And we were very lucky.
02:40 We had a great publicity coordinator called Vanessa
02:43 and David Heyman producing,
02:44 and there was a sort of firewall around them
02:48 to sort of protect them really.
02:50 We didn't have social media then
02:52 in the way that we have it now.
02:54 And so now my one big bit of advice in terms of,
02:58 and I know they'll do this without question,
03:01 is to sort of protect them from all the kind of,
03:05 everyone will have a view and a perspective.
03:07 And it seems to me since we finished the films 10 years ago,
03:11 the kind of public discourse
03:12 and the sort of people offering opinions about things
03:16 has somehow become much more, I don't know,
03:20 confrontational and aggressive.
03:22 And when we were making it with our young cast,
03:25 we didn't have that degree of interrogation or sort of,
03:30 and that's the only thing that I would be worried of
03:33 is to protect that group
03:36 and help them through that process
03:38 because there'll be a lot of stuff coming at them
03:42 and they need to be protected.
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