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Dev Patel

Dev Patel

British actor and filmmaker

Aug 17, 2026

1:33
Have you always been an entrepreneur? What's your, what's your, uh, view on entrepreneurship? Is it a learned skill for you or, or something that were you there with the lemonade stand outside your parents' house back in the day?
1:43
Yeah, it's a, it's a good question actually, and I was just saying this to someone last week because, um, I think a lot of, um, entrepreneurs probably have it within their DNA from childhood.
1:56
Um, I don't think people are just, can be taught to be an entrepreneur.
1:59
I think you have to have some sort of environmental exposure to someone within close f- proximity normally anyway, or some sort of mentor or someone near you who's had, who's worked hard in some part of their life or been an entrepreneur.
2:13
Because, um, a lot of, and I mean, I think and I'm not, obviously exaggerating, but a lot of our partners and people that I know in the UK, um, including myself, if you look at hard work ethic, that's kind of the fundamental part of being an entrepreneur.
2:28
And then I think all the other things around it, you can be a really smart entrepreneur, you can be just hardworking, but you know, that's kind of the thing, the fundamentals.
2:35
So for me personally, my parents, um, like most Asian parents, you know, came over from East Africa back in the day when they were kicked out from Kenya.

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25:37
Yeah, yeah.
8:08
Patel plays Odysseus' right-hand man.
8:11
There was a night where we were shooting in Iceland.
8:14
There's a weird twilight that we were trying to get.
8:23
Uh-huh.
8:23
And I was like, "Matt, is this the hardest location you've ever worked at?" Because it was just ...
8:28
What Chris tries to capture in his movies is raw, it's visceral.
8:33
He wants to immerse you in it.
8:34
That's why we shoot on IMAX, you know?

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