Julie did consider other areas of London, but kept finding herself drawn back to the neighbourhood where she lived until the age of eight, which was where her grandparents had settled when they came to London as part of the Windrush generation in the 1960s.
Bafta’s deputy chair knows how to create a visually stunning home Julie La’Bassiere returns to the London borough she grew up in, to create a space that encapsulates her world.
But for leading film and TV publicity and awards strategist Julie La’Bassiere, it made complete sense.
Swapping the sidewalks of Brooklyn for the leafy streets of Wandsworth in south London might seem like an abrupt gear change.
“It must have been in the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, 1977, because I took to sitting on the back seat and giving my classmates what I called my ‘royal wave’…”.
