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Tom Hooper (director)
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Interviewer: Now, as you mentioned, you yourself are Australian, but your son, your children, are dual citizens of both Australia and the United Kingdom.
Tom Hooper: Yes, I was very, very insistent on this and I’ve never given up my sense of being Australian or wanting to be. As a writer, I write quite a lot about Australia, but all the children were given Australian citizenship at birth, and we took them back to Australia a lot, first of all to see their grandparents, which I thought was very important.
Interviewer: AW: I feel that your film really rekindles the relationship between Australia and Britain that has somewhat dissolved over the last half-century. I walked out feeling proud to be a part of the British monarchy. Considering your half-Australian and half-British heritage, was that something you set out to do?
Tom Hooper: Yeah, it’s interesting. But I think my connection to it was quite personal. I think I could probably say it was the most personal film I’ve done. And that’s because one of the narratives of my childhood was of my Australian mother unpacking or undoing the effects of my father’s English upbringing, as my father lost his father in the war at the age of three. He was then packed off to boarding school at the age of five.
Interviewer: I believe you have an Australian connection in that your mother was Australian. Is that right?
Tom Hooper: Yeah, my mother is Australian. She’s from Adelaide, like Lionel Logue. So I’m half-Australian, half-English and I’ve got both passports.
Unless Mr. Hooper is lying, he is definitely a dual citizen. Countries do not issue passports to non-citizens. If you have a reliable source that he is lying then by all means add it to the article. Otherwise, that is idle speculation and does not conform to Wikipedia's biography of living person's policy. —Ute in DC (talk) 09:12, 28 February 2011 (UTC)