Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. I'm your host, Ivor Cummins. We're here with Donal O'Neill,

the producer of serial killers run on fat and the Big Fat Fix, and recently our production of

extra time. So great to see you, Donald, in South Africa there, aren't you?

Great to see you, Iver. And my first question is to you. This is your first role as a producer of a movie.

So this wouldn't have happened without you, as you well know. It's been quite the journey.

So why don't you tell your avid listeners and viewers, how was your first experience

producing a movie? Oh, well, it was very easy for me because you were involved, obviously.

I just turned up. But yeah, no, it was really interesting. And it was great to see the whole

way that a movie is produced and the timelines managed. And you know what fascinated me about it was,

as you described very early on,

you don't know the arc of where the movie will go.

So this was a very open-ended movie.

It could go anywhere.

We were testing 45 men.

We didn't know what results we get.

I remember thinking at the start,

if we get very few scores, it'll be kind of

weird because what do we make of that? And then also the efforts of people to address the high

scores. Would they be successful? Would they make enough effort? There's so many open-ended things.

So you just got to keep shooting and keep shooting and build the material

and change direction. So it was really program and project management, which I was used to in my

previous life. And it was, yeah, it was a great experience. Obviously, I was only limited involvement

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