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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I S P R I N G 2 0 2 2 19 You were born in London? Yes, just outside London. I left there when I was 19, moved to Toronto and, in 1990, moved to L.A. Was there a reason you chose to leave? Opportunity. It was in the '70s. 1977 was a pretty gloomy time in London, to be honest. And I think, ever since I was about 10 years old, I knew I was going to leave England. I just knew I was going to get out. No particular reason, I just felt like there were so many more opportunities elsewhere. I also remember thinking when I was 19, "Let's just go out there and if it doesn't work out in a couple years, I'll be 21, I'll come back, so what?" No big deal. It was just a wonderfully liberating feeling to have moved to Toronto thinking I was going to be getting a job there. I had been promised a job in a recording studio and that fell through, so I didn't have enough money to get back. I promised myself I was going to stay there a year, even if I hated every single day, and not leave until 366 days have gone by. It takes a few months to get used to a completely new place, a new country. I started to make some friends and get grounded, and I'm glad I made that decision for myself. You have more than 200 screen credits, and it's not like they're small movies. They are all big movies. Did you do any work in television? A little bit, not very much. I started off in music as a recording engineer in a music studio working on Paul Massey CAS in a 2017 Ford Shelby Cobra while working on Ford v Ferrari. Photo: Mark Edwards