Samantha Selinger-Morris14:39, Jul 19 2021
Emile Sherman has learned the hard way the price you pay for winning arguments. “I spent my childhood arguing with my sister. I would take opposing views and dance around with a whole range of different viewpoints that I’m not even sure I ever really believed,” says the Oscar-winning producer behind films including
The King’s Speech and
Lion. He enjoyed the thrill of “arguing the other side” and knew how to push her buttons. (He once argued that “elephants love being in zoos”.) “It massively damaged [our relationship], damaged trust, and she felt that I didn’t take her seriously, that I wasn’t there [in conversation] in good faith,” says Sherman about his childhood relationship with his sister, Ondine Sherman, an animal rights activist. Now, he says, they have a good relationship and are “able to take the p out of our own views”.