short in recent years. scott is my guest on today's media show. from inside one of the new netflix offices in hollywood, we'll be discussing the impact netflix is having on the movie industry for good or ill, and what he sees as the future of film. well, scott, welcome to the media show. thank you so much for coming on. first of all, i want to find out a bit more about your own story and how you got into film, because i think long before you became a film executive, you made your debut as an actor in free willy 2 as a policeman, and i think also assassins as a valet parker. that was a film with sylvester stallone. did you always want to be around a film set? i always did. when i was young, i loved films and sports. those were the things i really loved, and i went to university to study film. and when i did those, i worked for a film—maker named richard donner and his wife, lauren shuler donner, a producer. so we were producing free willy and dick always loved to put people who are working with him into the movies. and so for me, it was nerve—racking, and i realised very quickly, "i'm going to leave this to the pros..."