22Lucia Zucchetti

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Lucia Zucchetti (centre) with assistant Fiona De Souza and director Wash Westmoreland

(Courtesy of Lucia Zucchetti)

The original conversation with Lucia took place in her flat in Notting Hill, not long after she had edited The Deal for Stephen Frears, and just before she was off to Luxembourg to start on Michael Radford’s film of The Merchant of Venice. I first knew Lucia when she was a student at the same time as Lynne Ramsay, with whom she established a close working relationship as her editor, including on Ratcatcher and Morvern Caller. Recently we updated our conversation in her Soho edit suite.

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