David Appleford is a member of the Phoenix Film Critics Society and the American Theatre Critics Association
The question I am asked the most is, "Are you Australian or English?"
For the record, it's English. I was born in Tilbury, Essex, made temporarily famous by the film 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' with Cate Blanchett. Tilbury is the town where Elizabeth 1st gave her infamous speech where she rallied the troops in preparation for the oncoming, though disastrous, attack from Spain. Look on a map of Britain, go to London, then slowly run your finger to the right along the River Thames. There's Tilbury.
The second question that I'm usually asked is, "Are you thinking of becoming an
American citizen?"
Actually, I became a citizen in 2001, exactly one week after 9/11 when government offices around the country re-opened for the first time after the attack. Taking your citizenship and pledging allegiance to your adopted country is always an emotional moment, but the significance of the timing in September of 2001 made this ceremony all the more poignant.
On Friday, April 27, the new 3D stop-motion animated film The Pirates! Band of Misfits, opens in theaters across the country, produced by the studio that gave us Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, Aardman Animations.
This morning I had the pleasure of talking to director Peter Lord who dropped by the studios to talk about The Pirates! Band of Misfits, what it’s like to have the letters
To hear our full interview with Peter Lord click on the following link. 
Interview with Peter Lord
