Corbin and King appealed to the theatre crowd they’d identified from Joe Allen and Langan’s, helped by a late licence. “It was this excellent roll-call of rising actors. It might be folks like Ian Charleson, Zoë Wanamaker. Casting administrators, precise administrators. We had Hugh Hudson, who was making Tarzan at the moment.” Phrase bought round. “Chris took the decision from Marie Helvin, and he or she mentioned: ‘Oh hello, pay attention, I’m right here with Mick and Bianca, and Bryan Ferry and Jerry Corridor. I assumed we’d come alongside for dinner. Are you able to try this?’ After which she mentioned: ‘You’ll be busy, gained’t you?’ And we weren’t, in any respect. However I used to be decided we’d be, so we bought on the telephone to pals, household.” Did he know he’d made it? “That was the second.”