Episode Details

Liam James Collins: From The Dark Knight Rises to Building a Multi Million Pound Business

Episode 102 Published 6 hours ago

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How do you go from working on one of the biggest films ever made to delivering post just a few years later, and then going on to build a multi million pound business from scratch?

Joining Ellie McKay on the On a Mission podcast, Liam James Collins tells the full story.

At 19, he landed the role of Tom Hardy’s body double in The Dark Knight Rises. From the outside, it looked like Hollywood was calling. Then the auditions stopped, the work disappeared and everything he’d spent years building came crashing down.

Liam opens up about working on one of the biggest films ever made, what Tom Hardy, Morgan Freeman and the rest of the cast were really like when the cameras weren’t rolling, the networking opportunities he wishes he’d handled differently, surviving the London terror attacks, losing his father to suicide, battling panic attacks, delivering post to make ends meet, and the mindset that helped him rebuild his life and create a multi million pound business.

This is a conversation about success, failure, grief, identity, self belief, taking action when life falls apart, and why sometimes the chapters people never see are the ones that shape everything that comes next.

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In this episode:

✔ From Batman to the Post Office

✔ Landing the Role in The Dark Knight Rises

✔ What Tom Hardy Was Really Like Off Camera

✔ The Networking Opportunity Liam Still Regrets

✔When the Hollywood Dream Fell Apart

✔ Delivering Post and Starting Again From Scratch

✔ Surviving the London Terror Attacks

✔ Losing His Father to Suicide

✔ Battling Panic Attacks and Rebuilding His Life