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FROM AN INTERVIEW OLLIE MADDEN GAVE TO SCREENPLAY SCRIPTS:

"I wanted to dive back into your history, and perhaps go through chronologically. How did you get your start in the film business?"

"It’s sort of shameful to say, but it really was a minor act of nepotism. My dad is a film director, John Madden, who directed SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. He had just done that movie when I was coming out of University and trying to work out what I wanted to do. He brought the whole family out for the Oscars, where there was a thing called the BAFTA Tea Party, and where I met the producer Graham Broadbent.

I told him I had ambitions to work in production. He said, ‘Oh, well come and see me when you graduate.’ So I started working for him as a runner for his company with Damien Jones. Both are extremely successful in their own right, but have since set up separate companies. So I started as a runner there and when you’re a cocky, arrogant University graduate thinking, ‘I’ve got so much to offer the world!’ it’s slightly demeaning when you’re doing the washing up and packing boxes for most of your working day.

But it’s all about access. I got access to all these scripts....."