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Minkie Spiro

Minkie Spiro

British television director and executive producer

Aug 6, 2026

7:37
That's the case,
7:38
yeah.
7:39
And I remember early on in my career I did the show Downton Abbey in the UK and I remember giving Dame Maggie Smith a note and she said to me, do you know you're the first person in years that has actually given me A usable note.
8:03
And I sort of thought she was humoring me.
8:06
But anyway, we became very good friends.
8:09
And I would go to her trailer every morning to talk her through the day so that she could hit the ground running on set.
8:17
And she said to me, you would be shocked at how many people are either intimidated by me or they think, oh, she's in her 80s.

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41:39
So how are you finding that?
14:40
Yeah.
14:40
I mean, I, I could talk about the, the visual language of that.
14:43
So I think the way, uh, The Chicken Box sequence was written felt almost like individual scenes, but I, I, I love it when things feel organic and we're moving within space and time, and that there are handoffs as opposed to hard cuts from one to the other.
14:59
So after Tatum has an argument with Kyle, she goes to the bar.
15:04
That hands us off to Duran and her.
15:07
Then when she comes back, they have a further argument, and she go- he storms off, she goes out for a cigarette, and as she's walking out, she looks over towards Brooke talking with Sunny, and, and now the camera can settle there.
15:20
So it was very much a kind of piece of choreography that hopefully f- doesn't feel like choreography-

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21:24
Mm.
5:36
Wow
5:36
... and Japan.
5:38
And at a certain point, I was commissioned to go to Bosnia to photograph child landmine victims of the war whi- while it was still going on.
5:51
And my, my assignment was twofold.
5:53
It was to photograph child, uh, these, these children that, uh, had had many of their limbs blown off, and-Some of the photographs are being sent directly to surgeons in Europe to ascertain who to airlift out first.
6:09
And the other, uh, c- you know, assignment was to take medium format portraiture of these children that formed what became a, a, a, a, a large photographic, um, exhibition which traveled the world to raise awareness and funds for this charity.
6:30
So anyway, long story short, uh, I went to Bosnia, and it was h- the height of the, I call it the sniper season.

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30:23
Okay.

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