Tessa Ross

摘要

When you're making a film, when you're right in the thick of it, when there's no time, light, money or goodwill left and everyone wants to go home regardless of whether the film is actually finished, sometimes, just sometimes, rather than shout at tired crew members, you wonder, What do executive producers do? There are always lots of them; the bigger the movie, the more there are, yet the more a film's budget is cut, the more "executive producers" appear. Rarely seen, they're often credited in packs. Woody Allen said they gave him complete control over whatever necktie he chose to wear while rewriting for them.rnTessa Ross, 47, has a full-time day job running the film and drama department of Channel 4 television in the U.K. She's also one of the executive producers of Slumdog Millionaire. And In Bruges and Happy-Go-Lucky-all were award-strewn successes this past year and all originated from this most gentle and modest of alchemists.