Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and

James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never

know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear

the audio.

If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod at RogerDeakin's.com.

This episode is sponsored by Ari. More than just the manufacturer of the film industry's

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is sponsored by Otto Nemitz Camera Rental, newly located in Culver City. Otto Nemitz is known

for its premiere service and support to productions for 41 years. Today we're pleased to be joined

by a production manager to lead us through the wide range of that role. Among his credits

are the films in glorious bastard, man of steel, prisoners, Batman vs. Superman and justice

league. We're really pleased to have Gregor Wilson with us today. Thank you, Gregor, for doing

this. So pleasure, honestly, with you. Great. So our first question is always, how did you get to

where you are now? Did you always know from age five that you wanted to be a production manager

or did you go down another path? Tell us your story. It's a fairly random sequence of events that

brought me where I am now in the traditional Hollywood way. So I finished college here in the UK,

I studied urban design, I was having no idea what to do job-wise, work-wise or whatever.

I couldn't wait to get away from the English, no offense Roger. And I really? Where were you, by the way?

I was that college in Gloucester and then living in London and then I came out on a trip to the

stage to kind of postgraduate tour and I got fairly drunk at a restaurant in Venice Beach and I said,

sat next to a guy, he was a producer, super great guy called Phil Rose and he was a producer at

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