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Leap of faith

n the very beginning of lockdown, I think, if I am honest, I felt rather sorry for myself and royally pissed off by the blatant, cosmic injustice of it all. Didn’t the universe I had been wanting to make a movie my whole life and that it was important I now be allowed to fly around the US promoting it? My producers and I had been days away from said flight. I had been bricking it but had psyched myself up sufficiently (I’d had a whole bloody day of media training FFS!) for it. was going to get a wide theatrical US release. “This never happens with a tiny UK debut!” I was told repeatedly. This all feels completely unreal! OMG how amazingly, unbelievably... SMACK. Within 48 hours - Travel ban. Trip cancelled. Cinemas closed. closed. Release pulled. Stay at home. Oh.

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