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to. That goes beyond social work. Iwas lucky enough to have social workers like that in my life.

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I’dsay Pusher by Nicolas Winding Refn. It’s not a beautiful film, by any means. It’s shot handheld, almost is documentary-style, but the story strong and the characters are really interesting. Itook a leaf

out of his book. I also looked at how Shane Meadows works. He’llwrite a treatment and then cast the film. Then he’ll get the actors to improv to come up with the dialogue. We did that with bits and pieces. Sometimes we stuck to the script, but sometimes when it was wooden and it felt like they were “acting”

I threw the script away and said: “Remember the beats, remember when you’re supposed to walk into the room, remember when you’re supposed to get offended by this person.” It made it difficult to cut and edit the film, but that’s what produced the magic.

Can you recommend a good book?

The last book I read was Premiership Psycho by CM Taylor. It’s about a Premiership footballer who’s a serial killer. He calls himself a “Customer Service Vigilante”. He’s completely obsessed with labels and material things and he hates people that work within customer service who don’t respect the fact that he’s spending money. It’s a black comedy, but for me it says a lot about the society that we live in. It’s hilarious.

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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?

Always take insults in the same breath as praise. Ifsomeone tells you you’re a piece of s’”’, you’re not. If someone says you’re the best thing since sliced bread, don’t believe that either. You’re not Jesus or

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of him, It’you oath’ him smite, you wotuld to the point where I was a nervous wreck. really feel like you had earned ii. I hd no sense of humour. I couldn’ttalk.” We met once tuelore,I tell him. Surprisingly, Although he told his therapist he was a he renuemhers.It was in ttw I’loytouuSttua’e singer, Drew says lie doesn’t know if she ever Bar & Kitchen.Du’ewisiletul album, hl’itoNced,s got round to listening to his music — although ArtiontsWhen ThuGot Words,had already been she could have got much of svhalhe must out for ‘afew ss’ec’ks,and ‘- ‘althoughneither I have told tier over the course of a year in of its said it —. we hotli knew that if thicugs condensed form ott Who NeedsActionsWhen were going to t;tke off for toni, it would YouGot Words.“How lortgk it been, Dad?” already have cloneso by now. l’ltecliché about begins I Dun’tIlute You,before lyrically a debut albtcm — uisucalh’cited when an actist (lismantling the lather who left the family home when Drew was 6. Paul Itallanre had been a musician himself, fronting Past london iiyou’re I’eeling insecure, youre eventually going puls-rock combos flogss’atcliand Warm Jets — hut when Ballance became a born—again toget illt() a Situation whereorneone oI’Iends you Christian, Dress claims his father would use their foc’lnightlydays together to spew rothepoint thatyouwannasmashtheirlace in’ passages from the Bible,employing Mars bars as ito incitement to pi’ay.If nolhing else. the recollections prompted 11wmenioratile is shrugglingto write a follow-up —. is that if you’re feeling insecure and you’re in the couplet, ‘Every time you pitt something you have spent your whole life to that point svrongenvironment, around the wrong peoplc, in your mouth, you had to pray to Jesus/ writing it. IIowevei’,in the case of I)t’ew t’ou’i’eeventually going to get into a situalion Why the V’ do you think I never used to a tlOOtIiC’iit I red lapper who accompanied where someone offends you to the point that eat Mallesers?” For their crealor ability himself on acoustic guitar --the cliché clever you wanna smash Iheir face in. I’d lie out with 10 articulate the moment when victim • rang truer, TInesongs on it talked about his my mates and they’d say, ‘Look,Ben, we’re turns perpetrator, other songs ire chillingly absent father, us’[mm,at that point. he hadn’t now,’ going bitt I’d,just stay on, And then j reminiscent of Eniinem at his best, Listento S seen for 15years, his uuiotIier sutbsc’guent someone who’d been introduced to me as the child on No More Eatin’trying 1(1explain relaliotusiuipwith a crack usec’and the various a fan would start to lake the piss.” to hit stepfather why he didn’t retaliate when

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