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Shane Meadows often casts certain actors more than once in his films. This Is England Wiki Explore. Recent blog posts Forum Community Portal Chat. Helping Out. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Shane Meadows. Edit source History Talk 0. Categories Add category. Cancel Save. Fan Feed 1 Combo 2 Milky 3 Kelly. His work leaves me in bits.

Except that this interview turns out to be far from fun. It goes very dark, very quickly. Still, we start upbeat enough. And I could never do it. With The Virtues , he has. Especially during the first and second episodes, there is a real sense of things unsaid. In The Virtues , you can feel repressed pain, sense it leaking out and driving the action, even though the plot is unclear for quite some time.

He was macho, scary and horrible though slightly redeemed in TIE In The Virtues , however, Graham plays someone else entirely: a quiet, middle-aged man just about holding it together. Joe has a son, Shea, with an ex-partner, and we see his reaction to them leaving Liverpool for a new life. Initially, he keeps a lid on things, but his trauma spills into a pub scene that is jovial but so tense that at one point I had to leave the room. Soon, we follow Joe as he gets the ferry to Ireland, to try to excavate his past.

Graham is absolutely terrific: a career best, I would say, and his is a CV packed with excellence. But he remembered, and cast her as a nurse in TIE In The Virtues , Behan is full of heart, funny and stern. Rising star Niamh Algar is brilliant too, plus — plus!

Anyway, you should watch The Virtues. And then he tells me. Arty, a lorry driver, had found the body of an year-old schoolgirl, Susan Maxwell, beside the A near Uttoxeter, and the police wrongly thought he might have killed her.

Obviously, this was a traumatic time for Shane and his family. They put a picture of my dad in when he was 18, when he was a rocker — rather than 28 and a dad of two — so he looked like he could be a really dangerous bastard.

Upset and confused, he left his aunt, went to a nearby park and sat on a swing. See more awards ». Known For. Dead Man's Shoes Director. This Is England Director. TwentyFourSeven Director. This Is England '90 Director. Show all Hide all Show by Hide Show Director 19 credits. Hide Show Writer 14 credits. Short written by.

Hide Show Producer 5 credits. Show all 18 episodes. Short producer. Hide Show Actor 6 credits. After dropping out of school before reaching his O-Levels, Shane originally had his sights set on becoming an infamous, criminal mastermind of legendary proportions. Things did not go to plan. After being caught buying a set of stolen, limited-edition John Lowe darts, and later admitting to stealing and eating an egg-custard tart from the local Sainsbury's, it was clear that he just wasn't cut out for the hardened criminal underworld.

The final straw came when the latest criminal charges against him were read out in court. Laughter could be heard from both the gallery and the judge's bench when it was revealed that Mr Meadows stood accused of stealing a breast-pump from Boots the chemist.

After this final humiliation, Shane put his breast-pump pilfering days behind him and began to put his energy into film-making. The first of Shane's short films to grab the attention of someone already in the film-industry was 'Where's The Money, Ronnie?

Acclaimed producer Stephen Woolley was a member of the jury on the Channel One Short Film prize and was struck by this new, fresh and energetic film-making talent.