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15 Questions With Al Horner

15 Questions With Al Horner

"Make cinemas into community hubs! Let them host book club-style hangouts so strangers can talk about the film they just saw."

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Name: Al Horner
Location: London
Occupation: Writer and Script Apart podcast host
Links: Script Apart, Al’s Instagram

1. What’s your favorite day & time to go to the movies?

I love a weekday morning movie. Starting the day with an enormous coffee in a dark screening room, maybe with a pastry too, is the goddamn best. Especially when you throw in a creeping sense that somehow you’re breaking the rules by doing so? My parents were both teachers so I grew up with a very traditional view of what a job was meant to look like. Watching Tom Cruise cling to the undercarriage of a burning plane or whatever at 10am on a Tuesday is… not that, haha. So, the little feeling of frisson and rebellion that comes with a morning screening definitely adds something to the experience.

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