From the archive: From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars
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The Guardian
4.2 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 1:09.3 | with Chante Joseph wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Sophie Elmhurst and I am the author of the piece from Game of Thrones to the Crown, the |
| 1:35.5 | woman who turns actors into stars, a profile of Nina Gold which was published in |
| 1:40.4 | 2018. I think there was a time probably in the sort of couple of years leading up |
| 1:46.3 | to writing the piece where I realized somewhere between 50 and 70% of everything I was |
| 1:51.3 | watching either in the cinema or at home on TV was cast by this woman |
| 1:56.6 | called Nina Gold, who I knew nothing about. |
| 1:58.7 | And her name just sort of came gliding across the screen in various credit sequences and in this sort of amazing range of stuff |
| 2:05.3 | as the headline suggests from you know game of thrones to the crown but taking in |
| 2:09.9 | many films by Mike Lee the BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall, Star Wars, there she was and I was |
| 2:16.2 | intrigued how she came to do the job, what the job actually involved, and how you came to |
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