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Indeed, having worked with Neil Marshall, who directed "Blackwater," and he's actually an old friend of mine; I worked on his first movie "Dog Soldiers," and his last one "Centurion," with Michael Fassbender. When he came on board, there was something terrific about it. Just working on something so big… I think it was Rolling Stone at the time, but Neil sent me a review and there was this one sentence: "This is possibly the best hour of television ever made." Neil at the time said to me, "Not bad for a first timer!" He hadn't done television before.



Now, to work on what's about to come up, it was absolutely extraordinary. HBO threw everything including the kitchen sink at it. It's one of the most expensive episodes of television ever made. We spent roughly a month just doing this particular battle. It's absolutely extraordinary, to be honest with you. The extras that we had were sensational. They're probably the best gang we've had. We had hundreds of them. We had a huge amount of horses. Miguel had the luxury of spending a huge amount of time on this. What I'm saying is, having seen "Blackwater," but not having seen "Battle of the Bastards" yet, I'm waiting with bated breath to see what they did with it.



Just to give a bit of background, we were brought in by Miguel and those involved — and this would have been probably late summer of last year — and they had the pre-viz and storyboards. I remember when they showed it to us, it was like a Hollywood blockbuster. It was something you would expect from a $200 million movie. I remember having a joke with Miguel at the time, saying, "Well, you're aiming pretty low here, aren't you?" We were both laughing about it, but he said, "We're going to see if we can get as much of that as we possibly can." In my opinion, Miguel, David and Dan have exceeded what I saw on the pre-viz. It's possibly going to be the most talked about episode of the entire story, of any season. I can't tell you the air of expectation I have on this. I have every confidence that it's going to be as magnificent as what I saw being filmed.