How did you find Shanana Goswami, the actress who played the cab driver?
Well, while I was putting the idea together, there was a movie released called Rock On, which she’s in. When I saw her in one of the promos for the movie, I had her in mind from that point. Then it was finalised that I’d be making the Dido film and I went to see the movie on the weekend it was released. She was brilliant – she’s actually just won an award for Best Supporting Actress for it. By the time I walked out of the movie, I was like, “If she does not play my cab driver I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do!” When I used to hear directors saying things like, “I picture Al Pacino in the role and if he hadn’t agreed to it, I wouldn’t have made the movie”, I never really took it seriously. But I actually felt like that! Was she quite famous? No, that movie was her first big role. But luckily the casting director of Rock On is a distant cousin of mine, so I called Shanana and told her about the video I was making for Dido. Did she agree to be in it quite quickly? Oh yeah, everyo
