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'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.

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Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.

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I think audiences are far too sophisticated now to have an English actor putting on a Russian accent - it feels fake.

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If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

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In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.

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It helps for actors if you have one director.

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The first series of 'McMafia' is very Alex Godman-centric and could continue to be, but we haven't even begun to explore the Middle East or Africa or even South America in detail. One of our ambitions would be to drop into some of these other places and, by doing so, bring the audience into a world that they wouldn't necessarily have been in.

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Living in London, you feel the sense of how it has developed into a service city. People come here from around the world - both to launder their money and launder their reputations.

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Chemistry's a weird thing. You can see actors who are friends in real life but have no screen chemistry. Then there are actors who don't get on but have great chemistry.

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Where previously the international underworld was a world of local, often-warring mafia territories, it has become globalised. The criminal has become corporate, and the corporate has become criminal. Organised crime has become very organised indeed.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: May 20th, 1973

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