{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"97. Hollywood Military Adviser, Paul Biddiss; Correcting George Clooney, Pinewood with Brad Pitt, Tenerife with Matt Damon and Surviving Emergency Chute Landings ","description":"There aren\u2019t many people who would correct George Clooney but, on his first film as an extra, this led to former paratrooper Paul Biddiss having a huge change in career from surveillance and bodyguard to Hollywood military adviser. He\u2019s since worked with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sam Mendes and more. He\u2019s been chased by a baboon in Kenya, charged by elephants in the Masai Mara, wrangled huge snakes in Malaysian swamps and most importantly, to him anyway, has found a KFC in every worldwide location.    On this episode we cover: Being \u2018stuck\u2019 in the beautiful in the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire 24 years as a paratrooper His 5 sons (yes really!) Desert, the arctic and urban hostile environments Being chased by a baboon in Kenya Being charged by a bull elephant in the Masai Mara Not being the greatest of travellers Seeing Table Mountain from his window Finding KFCs and gyms all over the world How he went from Paratrooper to Hollywood adviser Entering the security industry as a bodyguard and surveillance His first job as an extra \u2013 Monuments Men Correcting George Clooney Working on Fury with Brad Pitt Filming the BBC\u2019s War and Peace in Lithuania Filming the Jason Bourne movies in Tenerife Watching two old women having a fight with a flip flop Dodgy tourists in Playa de Las Americas Refusing to give Matt Damon a barbell in the gym Filming sci-fi Foundation for Apple TV in Malta Doing surveillance in between shooting Maintaining a distance between him and the Hollywood stars Being \u2018the grey man\u2019 Following dodgy blokes round the M25 How the surveillance jobs work Women being more surveillance aware and harder to follow Having an apartment in Croatia, for six months for work Zagreb doubling up for Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Mexico and more Filming in everything from high rises to swamps in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore for Sky One\u2019s Strikeback Grappling with a massive python in Malaysia Finding the KFC in Kuala Lumpur How chains like McDonalds can feel like an Oasis after weeks of foreign food Watching Blackadder from incredible locations in hotel rooms Being the military adviser on Sam Mendes\u2019 1917 Lisa visiting her great-grandfather\u2019s grave in Ypres in Belgium Jumping into France with over a thousand other parachutist His miraculous survival after having to pull the reserve chute Whether or not he feels fear Not being into music and \u2018having no soul\u2019 His father being an ex paratrooper Filming the Suez Canal scene for The Crown      ","author_name":"The Big Travel Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.thebigtravelpodcast.com","html":"