Buzz Magazine Buzz Magazine - July Issue

profile DANNY HARGREAVES BAFTA-winning special effects artist Danny Hargreaves has set David Tennant on fire, worked with Danny Boyle and caused a tram crash on Coronation Street. The Real SFX founder tells James Ayles about his two decades working with special effects. “ Special effects isn’t a career path many people think of, but I’ve been doing it since I was 14 and can’t imagine doing anything else.” Danny Hargreaves, the 35-year old Managing Director of Cardiff-based RealSFX ponders the whirlwind of success that has engulfed him since he started the company eight years ago. In this time he has worked on some of the most groundbreaking TV shows of the last two decades, including Sherlock, Hollyoaks and Doctor Who. “As a kid, I saw films like Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator, these iconic 1980s films and that inspired me.” Danny worked his way up from sweeping floors at the now defunct AnySFX, to become the youngest special effects supervisor in the country at just 24 years old. The Oxford-born supremo admits he faces a consta

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