I’m going to be necessarily cagey but ... he’s been there before and he’s back now to help Temple (Bertie Carvel) who, it’s suggested, has worked with him before and trusts him. Baghdad Central | Interview with Tawfeek Barhom : Amjad. Plus, it pays well and also there’s the appeal of having status, of commanding a group of men. Ben talked to me the other day about being in a situation where your morality has to rapidly adjust to circumstance… I mean that’s how you ended up being in the riots the other week, where they just walked into JD Sports and nicked everything because that’s where morality was right now.
It must be a weird one for him. It’s a case of: the more you know, the less you understand.
He’s lost someone he works with and whose family he probably knows.
Temple needs him for protection, but Evans is also involved in some illicit business.
TELEVISION DESK. I played a private security contractor in Kill List (2011) and did a ton of research, so I revisited some of that. I think there are moments of excitement and the adrenaline rush of being involved in something, but it’s a lot of hassle and aggravation. “Carpet fitting, gardening for the council, warehouse work. NEIL Maskell talks about the making of Ben Wheatley’s Kill List, including researching his character and experiencing nightmares afterwards as well as filming the soon-to-be infamous hammer sequence. Baghdad Central | Interview with Maisa Abd Elhadi : Zahra. Baghdad Central | Interview with Neil Maskell : Evans. His modest wealth accumulation comes from TV Shows and movies, which is estimated to be a little over 3 million dollars. Interview by Rob Carnevale. “He seems incredibly scary on screen, but actually he’s a lovely person to be around. Everything’s turned out far beyond how I thought it was going to, and I’ve got Ben Wheatley to thank for that.”. I got there, but there were some creative struggles. I wasn’t really thinking straight. But it was like a blackly comic version of Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia. 26th January 2020. What’s different is maybe the humility and the resilience that a lot of people lack elsewhere in the world. Images of two males released by police investigating an assault in... Dog stolen during a burglary in Huddersfield. I did. It was much more exciting than anything going on in suburbia.”, Taking the classic Brit actor rite-of-passage route, the school-age Maskell popped up in the likes of The Bill, Casualty, Soldier Soldier and London’s Burning. Neil Maskell: Not directly… not personal dreams or nightmares. If you’re going to get a petition going, make it about something that’s actually affecting and damaging people’s lives. But Mark Kempner, who played The Librarian who gets bashed up, kind of had an unfortunate day really because we had to shoot it in two different ways. Neil Maskell: Probably sort of 60/40 in favour of scripted stuff. What do you hope audiences will take away from Baghdad Central? Baghdad Central: Interview with Neil Maskell: Evans, Taskmaster: Interview with Richard Herring, Taskmaster: Interview with Katherine Parkinson, Taskmaster: Interview with Daisy May Cooper. But it was also notable for the calibre of its cast. He started classes in 1987, aged 11. I think there are moments of excitement and the adrenaline rush of being involved in something, but it’s a lot of hassle and aggravation. It’s lawless, really. I’m going to be necessarily cagey but … he’s been there before and he’s back now to help Temple (Bertie Carvel) who, it’s suggested, has worked with him before and trusts him. [At Scher’s] we had a common interest. This story’s universal qualities, a guy who’s good at a job he now can’t do, who’s had to make compromises in his life because of the regimes he’s worked under, those themes resonate with everyone.
Neil Maskell is an English actor, writer, and director who is known for his appearances in British crime and horror films such as The Football Factory and Kill List. Neil Maskell hasn’t got a bad word to say about anyone. It’s a modest ambition.”, Utopia starts Mon, 10pm, Channel 4; The Mimic starts Wed, 10pm, Channel 4. eil Maskell hasn’t got a bad word to say about anyone. So – as an actor you piece that together to avoid the moustache-twirling badness, but you wouldn’t call him a nice man, let’s say that! One minute he’s all smiles, the next you wonder whether he might just flip the table.
I did. There’s a lot of money floating around. “To get to spend time in the company of people you admire. I played a private security contractor in Kill List (2011) and did a ton of research, so I revisited some of that. There’s a lot of money floating around.
We were both talking about films and we’re both obviously keen cinephiles, sort of thing, and he started talking about this idea he had that was set in the Philippines about a guy who finds himself amongst a religious cult who are… well, I don’t want to give too much away just in case he ends up making it!
The most interesting thing so far has been the variety in the cast and specifically talking to the Iraqi cast and members of production.
“He’s just naturally interesting to watch,” says Wheatley. He said he’d pitched it to Warp [Films] with me playing the lead role. You know, you only need to say a few words of a sentence and we both know what we mean. So, you shoot for long, long, long takes of improvisation, probably most of which is completely unusable waffle, and then you go back to the script and he likes to do one where he asks you to be concise and to try and do the script but with as little dialogue as possible, so cutting off sentences halfway through as you do with your own wife or your own best friend. How was shooting something like the hammer scene? Q. Even Danny Dyer, with whom he did his first theatre work aged 18, is “a lovely man who gets a hard time and doesn’t deserve it”. While he’s reticent to mention it for fear of looking pretentious, he says that Velázquez’s paintings of courtly buffoons helped him find a new line on the character, portraying a simple-minded man with dignity and respect. I expect he gets all sorts of stares in the street. NEIL Maskell talks about the making of Ben Wheatley’s Kill List, including researching his character and experiencing nightmares afterwards as well as filming the soon-to-be infamous hammer sequence. He’s lost someone he works with and whose family he probably knows. Although strangely, after we finished filming I kind of had a lot of bad dreams around that time – not necessarily directly linked to being chased by loads of naked pagans. “I find that offensive. Iain McDiarmid is “amazing”. I’ve gone from being someone who thought they were quite well informed to realising I don’t know anything. I really liked it – it’s got an unusual rhythm and the language is gorgeous. I looked at a lot of personal testimony and the blogs that are online from the soldiers coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq and the other worldliness of that situation.
Neil Maskell: We were very deep into the film by that point, so it’s hard to have a direct memory. She recommended the Anna Scher Theatre school in Islington, where Kathy Burke and Phil Daniels studied. Then Gary Oldman came by Scher’s when Maskell was 18 and gave him the part of Schmuddie in Nil By Mouth. I played a private security contractor in Kill List (2011) and did a ton of research, so I revisited some of that. Sharing those experiences has been a highlight. Normally, I’d go out of my way not to hurt another actor but Ben said: “You need to hit him.” Well, I must have hit him 18 or 19 times with it and you wouldn’t want to get hit with this thing, even though it was only foam. His Kill List co-star Michael Smiley is “like family to me”. Simon McBurney is “a great genius”.
Ofcom received 37 complaints about the scene, Channel 4 a further 28. 26th January 2020. He’s also made some shorts, and hopes to spend more time behind the camera. Q. What do you hope audiences will take away from Baghdad Central? Even Danny Dyer, with whom he did his first theatre work aged 18, is “a lovely man who gets a hard time and doesn’t deserve it”. 26th January 2020. How much did you know about the background story of Baghdad Central? So, that was interesting because I didn’t know him that well. It’s lawless, really. There’s an idea of a circuit for private security contractors where they can just move around war zones. 20 January 2020 Who is Evans? The specialist advisors on the project were uniquely helpful in terms of offering insights into that work too. But it kind of had an effect. One night after filming, Maskell found himself drinking cocktails and talking with Fox about his role in seminal 1970 drama Performance, and then the following night over dinner, grilling Rea about Neil Jordan and his career in political theatre in Belfast during the 70s. Q. MyAnna has joked that that’s how Ben must see you… as an angry, borderline psychotic kind of character… I guess what I might find jarring, or more offensive, is our government’s complicity in horrors that go on on a daily basis, than some Channel 4 drama.”, So he didn’t find the Utopia scene gratuitous? Q. Skype Bradford Zone, Send us your stories to tvdesk@bradfordzone.co.uk, Send us your pics to yourpics@bradfordzone.co.uk, Baghdad Central | Interview with Neil Maskell : Evans, Baghdad Central | Interview with Tawfeek Barhom : Amjad, Baghdad Central | Interview with Clara Khoury : Professor Zubeida, Baghdad Central | Interview with writer Stephen Butchard, Baghdad Central | Interview with Lead director Alice Troughton, Baghdad Central | Interview with Execuitve Producer/ MD of Euston Films Kate Harwood, Baghdad Central | Interview with Waleed Zuaiter : Khafaji, Baghdad Central | Interview with Bertie Carvel : Temple, Baghdad Central | Interview with Corey Stoll : Captain Parodi, Baghdad Central | Interview with July Namir : Mrouj, Baghdad Central | Interview with Leem Lubany : Sawsan, Riviera | Interview with Synnove Macody Lund (Alex Harewood), Riviera | Interview with Gabriel Corrado (Victor Alsina-Surez), Riviera | Interview with Poppy Delevingne (Daphne Eltham), Father Brown | Interview with Jack Deam (Inspector Mallory), Riviera | Interview with Clare-Hope Ashitney (Ellen Swann). Q. But that’s one of the useful things about shooting digitally – not having to worry about the roll running out. 26th January 2020. His Kill List co-star Michael Smiley is “like family to me”. More than anything, what fed it other than exhaustion – which we were all feeling by the end because of the long days and stuff – was my research. This story’s universal qualities, a guy who’s good at a job he now can’t do, who’s had to make compromises in his life because of the regimes he’s worked under, those themes resonate with everyone. If you do an improvisation and then go back to the script, the improvisation is still kind of inside the relationship and so it feeds the dialogue again. And if that was the point, then we have to do it, or you compromise the whole thing. Obviously, there’s the version where the head comes apart but we had to shoot a version where I had a foam hammer. Maybe direct something,” vhe says. He’s a private security contractor working in Iraq. It’s lawless, really. Temple needs him for protection, but Evans is also involved in some illicit business. “Secondary school was a bit of a hateful time for me. Neil Maskell: I first heard about it… I’d done the Wrong Door with Ben [Wheatley, director] and then we were out doing an Internet viral for Heineken. So, the truth of it is that maybe it’s in his head and maybe this is a dream and he can behave with the logic of a dream whilst trying not to lose that reality and you are effectively playing the West as an entity and as a kind of purveyor of violence, if that’s the right expression, and as a victim of the response. There’s a lot of money floating around. Temple needs him for protection, but Evans is also involved in some illicit business.