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Adam Deacon Interview For His Film ‘Anuvahood’
Mar 17th
“It’s a hype hype ting.” ‘Anuvahood’ is Adam Deacon’s side-splittingly hilarious directional debut. Deacon also headlines the cast, co-wrote the script and provides much of the soundtrack. The film follows his character Kenneth aka Kay, who thinks he’s got the moves, thinks he’s got swagger, thinks he can spit bars, but in reality, he’s a WASTEMAN!
With the bailiffs banging on the door, parents screaming in his ear, and finding no luck with the ladies, he needs to FIX UP, and fast. When our boy starts selling weed to get himself out of trouble, local badman Tyrone is VEX, opening up a world of hurt for Kenneth and his misfit crew. But he ain’t gonna go down without a fight. It’s time for him to get rich, or CRY TRYING! Check out what Adam Deacon had to say about his film below. ‘Anuvahood’ is set for UK cinemas March 18th.
How did ‘Anuvahood’ come about?
Adam Deacon: It come about probably around ‘Kidulthood’ you know, to be honest it was an idea I kinda had when I watched ‘Friday,’ even though I was so young I thought this film is wicked, one day if I ever got into acting I’d love to make a film like that, on a silly one. So then obviously ‘Kidulthood’ came about and I remember talking to Femi on the set and saying one day we can do this. People don’t realise that on ‘Kidulthood’ we improvised a lot, we really did. The script was a brilliant script but some of it had to have that authenticity to it. If you don’t get that realness right people will just lock off, so I knew with Jay, he’s going to be real, he’s gonna be one of them characters that will stand out because I’m gonna make him so authentic kids are gonna relate to him.
Richie Campbell Interview For Adam Deacon’s Hilarious UK Urban Comedy ‘Anuvahood’
Mar 16th
Adam Deacon’s directional debut ‘Anuvahood’ follows Kenneth aka Kay (Deacon), the local wasteman who with the bailiffs banging on the door, parents screaming in his ear, and finding no luck with the ladies, he needs to FIX UP, and fast. To make matters worse is Tyrone (Richie Campbell), the local badman who’s out to open up a world of hurt for Kenneth and his misfit crew. Check out what Richie Campbell had to say about the film below. ‘Anuvahood’ is out in cinemas this Friday – 18th of March.
How did you get involved with Anuvahood? I know you’ve been friends with Adam for a while now.
Richie Campbell: Yeah, initially it started when me and Adam done a film called ’Wilderness’ together, we done that about five years ago, we look proper young (laughs). Basically we did that film, I remember we were up in our hotel room chilling and I was telling him the story about this guy who thought that I was messing around with his girl, so he stepped to me, he was this big guy, he looked mad and he had this squeaky voice, so I was telling Adam the story and he was wetting himself, he was literally crying with laughter. That was initially how it started, then every time we’d bump into each other we kept talking about it, he kept saying “I’m gonna write that, I’m gonna put it in the film,” I was like “cool, cool do what you’re doing,” at the time I didn’t really think anything of it.
What people don’t understand is a lot us young actors kind of know each other, we used to hang around a lot. Basically he said he was writing it and he has this character in mind that he thought I should play. Then it happened quicker than we all expected. I was away, I was in a theatre production at the time, and that project clashed, but what thankfully what happened was Adam said he really wanted me to play the part, Revolver, the distributor’s were a bit iffy at first because they had only seen my drama-based stuff, no comedy. So I came down to Revolver, read the script and I had seen a film called ‘Bronson’ with Tom Hardy, and I just liked the way he played his part, I took bits from that, I took some stereotype’s, like the guys who hit the gym just for summer (laughs), just different pieces.
