Thank you Aude & Eurostar

The beautifully named Aude Criqui in the Eurostar press office is in charge of film permissions. I’m scared when I call her - without the train scene the film will be seriously diminished and trains are famously difficult to arrange: they also cost. Aude is instantly can-do and encouraging. We talk about dates and I bundle off the script to her - and wait. A few days pass then an email arrives: yes we can do it. And this: ‘Please note this booking will be complimentary.’ I send it to Paul and show it to Emily to check over - can it mean what I think it means? It does. I know Eurostar are keen on film: they funded Shane Meadows’s Somers Town. We are a much, much smaller deal but it’s still a magnificent gesture. Apart from the money it has a galvanising effect: ‘yes, this is really going to happen.’ Thank you Aude. Thank you Eurostar.

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