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T S Any Director S Nightmare. Ou Have a Crucial Scene to Shoot, You Arrive On TheTotal Film home entertainment bible tv Second skin On set with small-screen sequel This Is England ’86 t’s any director’s nightmare. strip of grim concrete housing cubes “My parrot’s flown off, which could have You have a crucial scene to playing host to today’s shoot. “Everybody’s potentially buggered up his entire schedule, shoot, youarrive on set ready heartbroken – he’s like my son.” Local DJs but he couldn’t have been nicer about it.” to lock and load – and have issued the APB for Ian’ssafereturn, i discover that one of your star although their on-air comments aren’t Serial lover performers is nowhere to be found. He’s helping the on-set mood: “Sick as a parrot” Meadows has long talked about revisiting the taken off –literally,since the performer in is the hi-larious radio phrase of the day. brilliantly drawn characters he created for question is Ian the parrot, the constant With Gilgun emotionally indisposed, his searing,truth-laced accountofhis own companion of both actor Joe Gilgun and Meadows and Herbert Woody, the character he’s reprising in Shane have been forced to Meadows’ four-part TV sequel to his reshuffle the deck, not ‘I’m ahugefan of ’80s skin-gang tour de force This Is only reeling in Thomas England. “We’ve lost an actor – Turgoose on his dayoff drama andHBO,soit talking he’s green,” producer Mark but bringing forward his point Herbert tells Total Film. pub-toilet sex scene with wasanexcitingchallenge’ Co-writer Jack Thorne’s next “Hewas on my goth Smell (Rosamund scriptisanadaptation of Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down, shoulder and usually he’s Hanson). “I’m really nervous,” admits youthful engagementwith skinheadculture, focusing on four strangers fine but he got freaked out Turgoose, “with my girlfriend being down it including its ugly tumble into neo-Nazism. whose paths cross on the same by an alarm,” sighs Gilgun, makes it even worse.” But as frightful as the When the Midlands filmmaker half-jokingly roof from which each intends suggested a follow-up TV series at a Film4 to commit suicide… cutting a mournful figure day is panning out, the sense of camaraderie on Sheffield’s Ironside Row that Meadows fosters is ubiquitous: “He’s pitch meeting, the channel didn’t need Block, an appropriately named afucking wonderful bloke,”saysGilgun. convincing,and neither did Meadows.“They 150 | Total Film | September 2010 Subscribe at www.totalfilm.com/subs TFM171.lounge_tv150 19/7/1010:01:44am Rule Britannia: shadow of unemployment and Maradona’s filming ascene hand of God. “When you put these with the cast of This Is characters together it’s impossible not to England ’86. have loads of humour,” says Meadows, “but this has some of the mostintense drama of my career.” While Turgoose’s Shaun was the original’s focal point, here Woody and Lol are the linchpins, while Combo (Stephen Graham) is set for a late-series appearance. Back on Ironside Row, a crowd of estate denizens have gathered round to observe the filmmaking gorilla in their midst. One local’s pitbull has just pissed on Andrew Shim (aka Milky), while a woman out with her grandchild offers her pithy analysis of Avatar when she overhears Herbert saying how many copies it’s shifted on DVD. “Ooooo, it were rubbish,” she declares.“I don’t like these unreal movies – I like real stories. Like this one here…” Watch the birdie Today, though, Meadows’ efforts to keep his real story on track keep slamming into unexpected obstacles. A gaggle of young girls have been drawn like moths to a flame by Gilgun’s presence (he’s an Emmerdale regular) and their chatter and chirping cellphones are disrupting Meadows’concentration through the open doors and windows of the “burned-out, shit-hole flat” he’s shooting in today. Still forlorn, Gilgun nonetheless agrees to take charge and, wearing atatty bathrobe over his jeans and Doc Martens, leads them away down the hill likeaPied Piper with ADHD (“Before you ask, I’m not taking Es,” he tells Total Film as Moment in the sun: he pops a pill for his condition). Shane Meadows And, in the spirit of filmmakers (centre) and the cast. always ensuring that audiences know a plucky onscreen critter commissioned us to write one episode and SeethiSif has managed to escape certain death, Total then more stories kept coming out,” he says. youliked... Film can report that the tale of Ian the “Wewanted this to stand up in its ownright, thiS iS missing parrot has ahappy ending.Ten that you could watch the series without england 2006 hours after taking flight from the set, seeing the film. Also, I’m a huge fan of classic You don’t have to see a family returning home from a funeral it to getthe TV show, ’80s drama and some of the stuff coming out but you should –it’s found him sitting on their fence and, as of HBO so it was an exciting challenge. I love one of the finest Brit their just-buried relative happened to be films of the decade. the fact that we finish end of August and it’s a massive bird lover, they knew how to on TV a week later. With films you can be ShameleSS approach the feathery tearaway without waiting ages for it to come out…” 2004-present scaring him off. Ian and Joe were reunited Council estate Co-writing with Jack Thorne, Meadows lifethrough an at last. “They’re inseparable,sothe dayIan opted to direct the series’ final twoepisodes, unvarnished lens. went missing was not good,” admits The US remake airs recruiting Tom Harper (The Scouting Book For next month. Meadows. “But it turned out to be a great Boys) to handle the story’s kick-off. Picking story with a great ending.” Who would up four years later, This Is England ’86 sees made in expect anything less from a Shane Meadows britain 1982 Woody get cold feet on the day of his Skinheadstereotypes production? Matt Mueller wedding to Lol (Vicky McClure), sparking getasteel toecapping from Alan torrid affairs, revelations of abuse and ClarkeinTim Roth’s > This Is England ’86 will be broadcastonChannel 4 violence, all under the gloomy mid-’80s telemovie debut. this September and released on DVD on 11 October. totalfilm.com TFM171.lounge_tv151 19/7/1010:01:46am.
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