I co-created and wrote a comedy thing with the legendary
@fatjacko
for
@bbccomedy
and it’s being released into the wild (
@BBCiPlayer
) on Friday 26th May 2023. Hope you love it. ❤️
It’s so tough. I just won a
@BAFTA
yet I’m typing this from Reading Services on a break from the day job delivering furniture. That’s the reality for working class folks in the industry.
“It’s an energy that we’re talking about, not just a social status. It’s been tough if you’re from a working-class area. You grow up with a different understanding of the world than if you’ve never struggled with money. That energy is so powerful.
@Winter
@HelenSimmons8
I was a Police Officer for many years and saw so many victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse. From whichever angle you look at it, no-one ‘won’ in this case.
The cognitive dissonance between
@mrJamesGraham
’s McTaggart speech about the shockingly low representation of working class people in the film & tv industry and seeing certain people getting money thrown at them every time they take a shit…
Jack Whitehall embarks on the biggest journey of his life: fatherhood. But he won't be doing it alone.
Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood With My Father comes to Netflix 10 September.
The Woman King might be the greatest movie ever made. It’s certainly what cinema was made for. Beautiful, thrilling, moving, funny, romantic, visceral, epic, intimate, action-packed… it’s pretty much perfect.
#TheWomanKing
@Dempster2000
Back in the days when I was a (very friendly) copper I had to arrest a well-known Geordie drunk. From the back of the van he kept screaming ‘Fucking Wheelchair Police!’ at me, which was weird. Wasn’t until I got to custody that I realised he was upset at ‘Wiltshire’ Police.
@chimenesuleyman
@WorksWithWords
I was a (v nice) Police Officer for 13yrs. Dealt with 1000s of cases of domestic abuse and assault, including sexual assault. You know how many perpetrators were Trans? Zero. I often spoke to Trans folk as victims, sadly.
I won a
@BAFTA
last night & put this outfit together for under £150. Not perfect but took cues about drape & silhouette from
@dieworkwear
Ivory dinner jacket, Vinted £35
White shirt, Moss, £50
Waistcoat, Next, £40
Bow tie, online £10
Trousers my own
Patrick Cox boots borrowed
@markedly
Went to stores at an RAF base for a pair of shoes. Was told I couldn’t have them because they were the last pair and ‘someone might want them’...
Don’t be too disheartened if, like me, you got an email from
@bbcwritersroom
saying your script didn’t get any further. Ironically, I’ve just had something else commissioned by the BBC. So have an armada of projects, because you never know what will break through
#screenwriting
@RobDunsmore
As an ex-Police Officer I feel I need to jump in here to clarify something. I think if you consider the evidence, circumstances and apply the public interest test you will, in fact, find that Dominic Raab is an absolute blanket.
I’m just a working class lad from Swindon who packed in a career as a Police Officer at 40 to pursue my writing dreams, so to have my first bit of TV released alongside this from
@rickygervais
is huge. Would ❤️all to check out
#mobility
from me &
@fatjacko
Honestly, I was struggling to convince myself that I had a future in writing this week when this came as a complete bolt from the blue. A BAFTA nom for ‘Mobility’, the comedy I created and wrote with the peerless
@fatjacko
GO TEAM MOBILITY!
@drjonty
Watching young Indy in The Last Crusade at the cinema as an 11 year old, I nearly lost my mind. And ending with that hat transition... I’m getting a bit misty-eyed just thinking about it.
It’s so tough. I just won a
@BAFTA
yet I’m typing this from Reading Services on a break from the day job delivering furniture. That’s the reality for working class folks in the industry.
@Coldwar_Steve
Gloriahunniford came into the Joe Bloggs shop (Swindon) in which I worked circa 1997 & turned her nose up at our chenille jumpers so I pretended to be on the 📞 telling a friend Angela Rippon was in the store.
@JasonManford
@BBradley_Mans
I was a Police Officer for 13 years. Our canteen wasn’t subsidised. In fact it was outsourced to a company run by a Tory party donor. For the same price Ben’s paying for squid with garlic aioli and paprika chickpeas I could’ve got myself two slices of toast with marmite.
Saw
@BillyCrystal
’s ‘Here Today’ at the cinema. It pulls off that rare thing of being a low stakes movie that’s both incredibly touching and laugh out loud funny.
@TiffanyHaddish
is great too.
@valkilmer
Saw it yesterday in the cinema, Val. You were excellent and the movie was sublime. It puts male relationships at its heart while also being absolutely thrilling. I hope no-one feels shame for crying at it the way I did. This one’s special (you and the movie). ❤️
@hrtbps
Have to admit I’m always tilting at windmills anyway but... I genuinely didn’t twig until about a minute in. I was thinking ‘Christ this is subtle - these guys are both ridiculous AND playing it absolutely straight’.
@pattonoswalt
Forgive me, as I’m English and having a hard time discerning what’s real at the moment, but is this an actual person? Like, he’s not a comic creation, doing ‘a bit’?
@edgarwright
@kumailn
It’s such a small moment but it’s perfect. His tiny mistake & subsequent embarrassment says so much about him as a character AND his character (and stealthily so).
Unless the queen is going to tell us she plans to open Buckingham Palace as a hospital and use her wealth to buy enough ventilators and PPE for the NHS, she can, quite frankly, get to fuck.
While being measured for his 1st Jedi robes, a young Kylo Ren practises projecting his naked torso into the minds of his classmates.
@HamillHimself
@rianjohnson
@Markgatiss
Given the primary role of PM is to take measured decisions in the best interest of the people maybe it wasn’t the greatest idea to hand the job to a freewheeling narcissist who’s lived in a consequence-less world his entire life.
Pinching myself that as a kid I used to pour over the
@RadioTimes
circling all the sitcoms I wanted to watch and now I have something I wrote featured! Hope you’ll all check out
#Mobility
and let us know if you’d like to see more ❤️
Being as I’m now a
@BAFTA
nominated screenwriter (did I mention that?) I’m just going to put this out in the world: I’d like to write a
#JamesBond
007 movie.
@sallyephillips
@criptacular
Non disabled, neurotypical here. I had an idea for a project based around disabled characters. Before I even started I reached out to a disabled writer to collaborate. Sia can get in the bin.
Just watched
#AmbulanceMovie
and I have to agree with
@KermodeMovie
on Michael Bay - if any director can be called an auteur it is he. This is like Bayhem greatest hits only now he’s got drones. It’s like when Dylan went electric. Or something. I had a blast.
@wittertainment
@SoozUK
@Helen_Fields
One of my daughters (who shall remain anonymous) recently said that Stephen Mangan is so close to being perfectly handsome, but not quite. Like someone had to construct a handsome man from memory and just couldn’t quite remember how the bits all go together.
@DanielleNicki
Certainly in the UK we no longer have a government. We have a ruling class who are so rich they can make economic policy decisions knowing it won’t ever affect them. It’s govt of the rich, for the rich backed by the rich.
@DanielleNicki
Met my wife working in a shoe shop when I was 16 & she was my supervisor. She was from a strict Indian family who intended for an arranged marriage to an Indian guy but I told her if she didn’t want that I wouldn’t let it happen. 27 years later and we’re still mad for each other
@SoozUK
For Matt Hancock it was the perfect storm. Early morning, close proximity to a woman, his own raging teenage hormones and the adrenal rush he felt knowing he was only minutes away from ‘having a go on the blue lights’ in that ambulance. An erection was inevitable.
Finally caught ‘No Sudden Move’ and what’s not to love? Soderbergh,
@ed_solomon
@DonCheadle
. A sublime piece of 50s noir. Would make a great double-bill with Chinatown.
@RepublicStaff
As an ex-police officer I’d be interested in hearing for which offence the protesters were arrested today and what necessity under code G of PACE.
@FTBL_Likealooks
‘Right lads, welcome to Top Dog Stag Experience. My name’s Joe but for the rest of the weekend you must refer to me as The Big Dick. We’ve got dwarf tossing at 2pm then it’s on the plane to Prague. Last one to hurl is the Top Dog. Boom.’
I’m going to start a thread of films/tv that belong in the DGU (Dressing Gown Universe). Rules are simple - a major character must wear a dressing gown in more than one scene. I’ll start with the classic tv version of HHG2G. Please add.
#DGU
#FilmTwitter
#screenwriting
@inherentcharlie
This is awesome. Are we sure it’s not an extreme perspective thing? The actor is at the back of a big set with the model in the foreground? Lens starts right up at the window and a mix of zoom & dolly out? I’m probably completely wrong.
@deanlines
...he made it with seconds to spare apparently. His mum simply asked him why he was so red-faced, sweaty and anxious, which is probably the same question she’d have asked if he’d been at home knocking one out anyway, ironically.