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IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST

Editor-at-Large JAMIE GRAHAM lifts the lid on film journalism.

As a film journalist, part of the job is meeting famous people – actors you’ve grown up watching on screen, directors whose visions have enthralled you.

But these meets are modulated and monitored, be it 30 minutes in a swish hotel room with the PR hovering outside the door, or 15 minutes between setups on a teeming movie set.

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