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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: The Director of This BAFTA Nominated Movie Sold His House to Finance It · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest the famous old saying
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Speaker 1: fortune favors the bold, but when your decision involves literally
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Speaker 1: putting your entire fortune on the line, that's particularly.
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Speaker 2: Bold, which is exactly what director Kirk Jones did with
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Speaker 2: his UK movie I Swear, sinking everything into financing it,
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Speaker 2: even selling his family home to come up with three
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Speaker 2: point seven million for the budget, which is.
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Speaker 3: Actually a very small amount to make a movie, but
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Speaker 3: a ton of money when it's everything you have to
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Speaker 3: your name.
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Speaker 4: Well, this week the risk really started to pay off,
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Speaker 4: with I Swear picking up five baft denominations, including Outstanding
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Speaker 4: British Film.
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Speaker 3: The BAFTAs are essentially England's Oscar and I.
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Speaker 2: Love why Kirk decided to finance it himself. I mean
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Speaker 2: curse words.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this isn't the case where nobody believed in the
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Speaker 4: story or whatnot. It's that it's a true story about
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Speaker 4: a man with Churette syndrome, which leads to impulsive swearing,
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Speaker 4: and Jones didn't want to censor that reality to appease investors.
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Speaker 4: It's got one hundred percent on Rotten to make I
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Speaker 4: Swear as on vod that's direct from Hollywood.