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- In a Villa. Donà, Dalle
Rose. On the second floor.

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On the second floor,

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- You have 60 minutes.

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[Julian] Basic idea was pairs

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of contestants on their own individual

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journeys around the world.

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Search for 10 questions hidden in

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different places around the world.

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And if you can find them

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and answer them, you can
win a million pounds.

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We wanted this series to,
to feel muscular and global

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and as though we were
putting people in a movie,

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but be a very intimate human
story at the center of it.

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And so when we were developing this idea

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and making a pilot,
our reference was Bond.

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We couldn't think of any series
of movies that did that kind

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of global dopamine hit
of adventure like Bond.

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So we made a pilot in
2019, we took it to Amazon

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and you know, Amazon
just thinks super big.

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So we were saying, you know,
kind of like, kind of bond,

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you know, we film it anamorphic,
it has that kind of Bond scale.

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And they said, well,
why don't we go to Bond?

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Amazon sent the pilot

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to Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson.

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The Bond franchise have
never licensed their IP

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ever to anyone.

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And they're rightfully very protective

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of their wonderful franchise.

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But Barbara was into it. She loved it.

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She loved the fact that we were not asking

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people to be bond.

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They were very ordinary people
who very much weren't Bond,

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but we were putting them
into a bond-like world.

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- Having two people on camera
for such a long amount of time

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that we have on this
show takes a certain....

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There's only certain people
that can do that and be engaging.

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So that was a key part of
our, our kind of process.

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And also just trying to kind
of wanted to have a hugely kind

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of like diverse and different

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and interesting selection
of people that go into that.

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These need to be ordinary
people with no special skills.

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They're not special
agents, they're not Bond,

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but we'll go on this
amazing journey and we'll,

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and we will kind of enjoy
following them on it.

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Seeing them going through these scenarios

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and experiencing this and be,

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and have that willingness
for wanting them to kind

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of succeed and do well.

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Julian and I basically
grew up watching Bond films

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and seeing that DB5 and
playing the little toy as kids

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and I, I remember when we
went down to the, the factory,

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their kind of warehouse here

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to kinda see it for the first time.

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I don't think I've giggled
so much in my life.

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It's, it was an incredible experience.

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- Ben was sending me Whatsapp
sort like, look, look,

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pushing all the buttons, flicking all, all

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- The things.

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It was kind like being a big,
you know, big kid. There's,

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- There's certain things, you know,

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in a bond show you've gotta hit, you know,

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there's gotta be a martini,
there's gotta be a tuxedo.

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And the DB5 was like
the ultimate thing to hit.

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It was like, you know, so as
Ben says, we wanted to build up

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to that and get to it in
a, in a much later episode.

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But also, I mean, I guess
the big difference was Aston

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Martin were just incredible as EON were.

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And they brought out the
continuation Goldfinger DB5

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for us with all the kind of gadgets

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and the, the number plates
and all that kind of stuff.

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And we were, you know, the night

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before the shoot we
were lighting this barn

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where we were gonna store it
and completely nerding out.

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Everybody was just gobsmacked
by this just beautiful thing.

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But of course, you know,
we're not a Bond movie.

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We weren't allowed to like
destroy it, you know, we were all

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absolutely terrified by the fact this had

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to return in one piece and our
contestants got to drive it.

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And in the show, you see,
as Ben says, they earned

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that the joy of that, it comes through.