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So we all took that and implemented it in our characters. And they were telling us “Yo this is what garage meant to me, meant to us, meant to the scene and meant it to the people”. Reggie took us away for a couple of days and we went outside of London and went to Suffolk and we got to speak to Lonyo, who wrote “Summer of love”, D.J.
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So all of the songs in the movie were in chronological order, I was listening to them and learning about them. So for me, it was just about the first thing I did in the audition process was create a garage playlist.
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I took a lot of cues from Elliot, who knew way more about garage than I did. Reda: For me, I didn’t know anything about garage, I don't know anything. Was there anything in particular that you were watching or reading? How did you guys prepare for the role? I think it's such a lived experience and garage music has a huge presence. And it's just such a collaborative process. Jordan: The environment and energy Reggie brought to the set allowed us to take those risks and allowed us the crew as well to take risks as well. None of us were scared of failing, we took many risks on that set. And this being the first feature film that he's directed and written at the same time, it doesn't feel like it – it feels like he's that many many times before.
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Reda: Yeah 100%, I've said it before about the way Reggie knows how to handle a set and stuff. We didn't feel like, "oh, if I say this and it doesn't pop off Reggie’s going to be offended." He was always accepting what we said. There were always new renditions of the script, just from us improvising in rehearsal and being like “wouldn’t this be funny?” I think that's what made us feel so comfortable around each other and take risks.
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From the time we were doing rehearsals, read-throughs, the script was always a work in progress. So what was it like working with Reggie? This is the first feature for all of you, so how was it under his guidance?Įlliot: I think Reggie was collaborative from the jump. You can see that the bond in the film is very natural and it must be the same with Reggie. It seems like you created such a family and the time off helped that. It was mad, we were literally thinking every day like, when is it coming? It took seven months, but when it came back, it was an amazing day. But by the third week, we were all, “what if this doesn’t come back?” We invested so much in it and all of that kind of stuff, and it's a really important story. Reda: Reggie has now said a couple of times that he was worried this film would never be done but he never said that to us, he never showed us that worry. So it kind of felt like the opportunity was going to be taken away from us. Yes, it was quite scary because we all wanted to finish the film and it was the first time we were leading a film. Jordan: How did I feel? At first, I thought it was going to be three weeks, but seven months later. So I don't know how you boys felt but I was on edge and then I kind of felt better. Reggie just made us feel comfortable the whole time, we had a group chat room having banter, sending each other gifs and memes. When you're filming the first week is always the toughest, because it's like, "okay, who is everybody?" I'm learning everybody's names and I’m getting familiar with my cast, I’m getting familiar with my costume, getting familiar with the character and the way Reggie wants things, the direction. It was great because we filmed such great scenes and got so much great stuff done, but at the same time, we had just got into our flow. Reda: Edge of our seat? We were off our chairs! The chair was on my head.Įlliot: It was a mixture of emotions. When production closed because of lockdown, were you on the edge of your seat? How did you guys feel?