00:01It was exactly 27 years ago yesterday that up the road a show called Les Miserables open to no advance,
00:09an enthusiastic but quite small, well a big audience, but nobody knew what it was and it took London by
00:18storm and the world by storm which is a great tribute to the original brilliant production and cast and without
00:23the worldwide success of the show we would not be all here tonight celebrating what I am just
00:29bowled over with, a simply marvellous movie version of Les Miserables which pays every homage to the show but is
00:39entirely a movie. It's what the authors and I very much wanted to do and when Tom Hooper set us
00:44to work we wanted to create something that could only be for a movie rather than be stagey and that's
00:50what I feel we've achieved.
00:52I've always known that it would only, it needed a director's vision to come and drive what a movie would
00:59be. I've always had a feeling in my bones that it would make a great movie but it needed somebody
01:03who is a movie maker to do that and set us to work.
01:08And because the thing is that Alain Clormichel and I know the show so well we are never afraid of
01:15change but we always sense when the change is right and you know Tom inspired us to make changes and
01:21quite often we slightly surprised him by being more radical than he was and he said oh you don't mind
01:28moving that or losing this or and we didn't.
01:30And I think the result has been something that's been totally organic. It's a wonderful fusion actually of theatre talents
01:38and movie talents. You know the two worlds had to come together to create something unique.
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