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I got Kenny in for a fitting when I was directing Second Unit on The Phantom Menace. Kenny duly arrived and before doing anything he asked me to come outside and see something. There was Kenny’s electric-blue Rolls-Royce Corniche, a beautiful Mulliner Park Ward Coupe especially adapted for him to drive. He proudly drove me all around Leavesden Stud
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