The Danish Girl director Tom Hooper on his journey to the top
There is something quintessentially English about Tom Hooper, director of The King’s Speech and Les Misérables (an impressive seven Oscars between them) and, now, The Danish Girl, which Hollywood could never take away. He says, “Gosh”, for instance, and has floppy hair. We are sitting in a pretty room in Claridge’s, clinking fine bone china …