LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 08: Writer Jack Thorne attends the “Radioactive” UK Premiere at The Curzon Mayfair on March 08, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
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HFPA in Conversation: Writer Jack Thorne Found His Path By Accident

The Wave. Then he knew writing was really his thing. “We did it for four nights in my university. And it was on at 11 o’clock at night and it felt really splendid. It just felt really nice. It wasn’t particularly brilliant, it wasn’t one of those things where everyone goes oh my god, you are amazing. It was sort of like, oh right, I feel somehow safe here, I feel like I understand the structures and strictures a bit. And I fell in love basically, I fell in love and it didn’t seem to matter from that point on whether anyone else was interested in being in love with me, I was sort of ok, I’m on this path now and I like it, it’s nice, it’s comfortable and I understand it.”

When You Cure Me, was the one that the Bush Theater in London put that on. “Then straight from that I was hired for a TV show called This is England ’88, Best Drama Series for The Fades, Best Single for Don’t Take My Baby, Best Serial for This is England ’90 and Best Original Series for National Treasure. Recently he has penned the adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials for HBO, and Netflix’s musical drama The Eddy. Next, you will see his movie Radioactive, about Polish-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie’s search to unlock the mysteries of radioactivity, on Amazon on July 24th,  followed by The Secret Garden drama to be released on VOD August 7th.

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