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Tom Wilkinson: Family
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Mr Derks, formerly a co-founder of music-sharing service Kazaa, and his business partner Tom Wilkinson came up with the idea for Respectance four years ago when Mr Wilkinson was unable to return to his native Canada for his mother's funeral. Phone calls to his family in that week revealed a number of stories about his mother – as a sister, a neighbour, a wife – and Mr Wilkinson began thinking of a way to pull these together in one place.
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Wilkinson: People are dying, basically. The central moment that you don't see on screen, which is his encounter with this sort of angelic innocent young woman whose family is dying, he suddenly realizes that - if you live a life that can be described in terms of shades of gray, you can sort of cope with it. But the instant it turns into black and white and you realize you're on the dark side, that provokes a sort of crisis in him. That's what you see, a man who is undergoing this sort of tremendous crisis.
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"She saw something in me which she was going to cultivate," Wilkinson recalls. She'd take him and a crew of chosen students back to her home where "she'd teach us which knives and forks to pick up first -- table manners." There were extra lessons in English. "She pulled a few strings to get me into university." He was the first in his family ever to go.
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