Liz Hurley’s son has gushed over his famous mother and what it was like to work with her on his new project.
In a Tatler exclusive, Damian Hurley reveals the inside story of how he wrote and directed his first-ever feature film titled Strictly Confidential. Damian spoke about his love for film and how his passion first started. He said: “When my mother gave me my first camcorder for my eighth birthday, a despot was born.
“From that moment, all I wanted was to write and direct movies. I tortured every friend and family member I could get my hands on to act in my self-written, self-directed short films, and I dragged whole suitcases of props, lights and costumes on every vacation.
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“My finest moment was nearly getting my mother arrested en route to St Moritz, when I made her chase my long-suffering godfather Hugh Grant around Zurich airport with a fake dagger, bellowing that she was going to skin him alive.”
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The talented young star, 22, also highlighted his love for actress mum Liz, 58, and her involvement in the film. He told the publication: “My mother, who had promised during the making of my first ever short film that she’d be in my first real movie, agreed to play a supporting role.
“I knew I needed someone by my side who was unequivocally Team Damian, so I begged my mother, Elizabeth Hurley, to come on board as producer. I could write sonnets of adoration about everyone involved, but I want to single out my extraordinary mother. It was a joy to tackle each day together.
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“She stayed by my side throughout the entire process and our twin-like telepathy was invaluable. We swapped the roles of good cop/bad cop so often that our house felt like the set of Police Academy, but we got there in the end.”
Damian was inspired to make the film after he lost a close friend to suicide. At the time he “shelved” the idea, deciding he wasn’t yet ready to tell the story. But over the next three years, he had then lost a parent, also to suicide, and had been “forced to grow up fast”.
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He added: “I realised I now had the experience to bring the script to life, and Strictly Confidential was born: the story of a young woman who is haunted by the suicide of her best friend and determined to find answers.”
See the full feature in the June issue of Tatler available via digital download and on newsstands from Thursday 2 May.
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