EDGAR WRIGHT

PROJECTIONIST & SOMERFIELD EMPLOYEE

“The worst job I ever had in terms of how bad I was at it was when I was a projectionist, at the Regal in Tenbury Wells. In my defence, I was 15 and probably shouldn’t have been doing it. The cinema had this huge old projector, and I was a weakling who could barely operate it. One time the film broke at the bottom and The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen went sprawling all over the floor like spaghetti. Another night I put the trailers on backwards. My final disaster was when I tried to focus the lens and dropped it on the floor during the trailer for Licence To Kill. Luckily someone in the audience was a projectionist and came to help, but I was sacked after that. My lowest moments, though, were probably [working] at [supermarket chain] Somerfield. I had already started making amateur movies, and I remember one day as I was cleaning pink baby vomit off the floor my boss walked past and loudly went, ‘He’s not in Hollywood yet, is he?’”