Hello, good morning. How you doing? We're doing okay. I mean, trying to set up technology.

I realized that if technology is like the future, I might as well just throw myself in the lake right now.

Well, this is working. I can see your face, your voice. Yeah, goodbye.

David Tannin does a podcast with Dan Lovie.

I wonder, Dan, if I may call you Dan, if I may be so familiar, but I'm wondering if it's

possible that we met before, because you, I think I'm right in saying, were an intern

at the office of my London agent around the time I joined it.

Correct.

Early 2000s, right? Yes. It is very likely that you heard a very nervous voice on the other end

of a phone call, fielding a call for you, being the go-between between you and your agent.

Is that what you did you answer the phone? Yeah, well, I started as an intern and then I guess

one of the assistants went on maternity leave and I was asked to take over the role of an assistant,

which at the time I didn't know how crucial assistants are to the agents. A swift promotion.

It was a promotion that I was not even aware of at the time.

And, yeah, quickly I kind of took over the desk and started fielding calls from all of my favorite British

actors. Right. Because it was a pretty high-profile office.

It got some fairly talented clients. Oh, yeah. I remember just, I think it was my first day,

Anthony Hopkins called. And I remember thinking to myself, well, this is a strange way to start a

job. Realized very early on that I did not want to be an agent. Okay. But did you think you might?

I mean, is that why you were there? No, I was there actually to, I'd never left Canada before.

And I had, it was my third year of college and I had had a pretty bad breakup and I thought I

need to eat pre-love my way out of here and went to England because I had always wanted to live there.

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