Was there a decision that he made at any point where you're like, oh, that's interesting? And then when you saw it in the final product, you go, oh, wow, yeah, that makes sense.

I mean, I don't want to say no, because that makes it sound like it's not interesting.

But no, no, I kind of understood very early on that it was inevitable that there were going to be changes.

It's not.

a hugely long book, but there's quite a lot in there that's difficult to convey on screen.

So I knew that certain things would be cut, certain things would be changed, and I was just totally happy about that.

From the very first script by Ben all the way through to the final, everything that was important to me in the book is there kind of in the screenplay and now kind of on screen.

What was your first reaction?