SINN: Well known?
 
WILSON: Only theater. And my granddad did lots of acting troupes with his other wives. Not with my nanny, but with his other wives.
 
SINN: So you're saying it was in your genes.
 
WILSON: It was, but I didn't know it. My dad hasn't done any acting.

SINN: Was anybody angry?

WILSON: I don't know. I think when my dad found out about the first family, fifteen years ago, he didn't do anything about it. He was like, "I've got my family, I'm happy, I'll leave that stone unturned." Then, two years ago, two more families came out of the woodwork, and it became funny.

SINN: Did everybody have a story of how the woman met him?
 
WILSON: Yeah, but the only wife who's still alive, she's got Alzheimer's. The story has a sad irony to it. None of the women can tell the story.

SINN: How does your father remember your grandfather?

WILSON: I think my dad's closed a lot of it off, but he did remember his father going away for a bit. My grandma was his third wife, and by that time my grandfather was getting older, so he was traveling less. But then, just down the road from where we lived in England, he got married to his fourth wife
 
SINN: They could have known each other. I mean, I'm sure they saw each other at the market.

WILSON: There's a film in it. Or a TV show. I've got to make it. 

SINN: So tell me about The Prisoner.
 
WILSON: The Prisoner is a reinterpretation of a classic 60s TV show, a British TV show, with Patrick McGoohan. And I'd never watched it before, but there's loads of references from The Prisoner which have filtered in through TV shows or films. It must have been on the BBC–and it was completely mad. I'm sure they were on acid.
 
SINN Are the characters the same?
 
WILSON: We've all got numbers rather than names [as in the original].  The idea is that this guy, named Number 6, wakes up in a village and he's been given. He remembers New York and has flashes of New York, but there's no escape from this world and everyone in the village is telling him this is the Village–there's nothing else.

SINN: Does it take place today?
 
WILSON: Well, the Village is very of its own time, but the flashes to New York are very now. But the village looks like a toy town. The architecture's very odd and everyone's got strange cars. We filmed it in this place called Swakopmund in Namibia.
 
SINN: How did anyone scout that location?
 
WILSON: I don't know. But the buildings are brightly colored, they look like sets, I mean it's perfect. And the original was filmed in a place called Port Marion in Wales, in England, which again has this Italian, weird architecture. It's like an Italian old colonial town in Wales. So they wanted to replace something similar to that, but not film it in Port Marion, so they found this place in Swakopmund.

SINN: How long were you in Africa?
 
WILSON: Four and a half months, from July to December last year. We were in Namibia for two and a half months and then Cape Town for two. And Cape Town was a blessing, I'll tell you. Swakopmund was fine for a bit, but it was very isolated, very narrow-minded place. There's nothing to do. And the weather's not great either. It's like England there. Strange.