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Today we're speaking with a writer. We worked with her on the film 1917. We're very pleased to

welcome Kristi Wilson-Karenz with us today. Kristi, thank you for doing this.

Thank you so much for having me. It's great to see you. Love pleasure.

We'd love to start with how did you get to where you are today? What was your path? Did you take

another path and then find this? Where did you start out from? Tell us everything.

I mean, I suppose I had a bit of a weird one. I was going to go and study physics because I'm

a weird nerd. Oh my goodness. I was going to go and do that. The school that I went to in

Glasgow was really pushing women in STEM, which I'm a big fan of. But unfortunately, when I was

15, I walked past a set for a TV show called Taggart. I saw it and I had been obsessed with films

in TV. I mean, it rains a lot in Glasgow. You spend a lot of time indoors, right? But I saw

this film set and I'd never seen where it come from before. I'd only seen it on TV or in film.

And I just wandered up and wandered into this set. They had very lack security. I stood around

for a couple of hours and I was bewitched by it and we've all been on film sets. They're not

that interesting, which tells you about my life at 15. It wasn't incredibly exciting. But this

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