David Morrissey

Alan plays a guy in Manchester who runs a club in Canal Street.

He's sort of struggling because he's a small businessman really and you know for all the difficulties that people are facing.

but he lives next door to me in manchester and i'm an electrician but i'm down on hard times i'm sort of lost my job my kids are growing up my marriage is not on a good in a good place and i sort of become radicalized by the far right really and alan becomes the target of of my aggression and my anger really because russell t davis says it's his angriest work yet and he says it's going to be called woke

It's a term to close down arguments, I think.

Whereas what Russell is trying to do is bring this to the forefront of our debate, really, of saying, look, this is where we're going.

Even if we haven't arrived there already, which I think we have, in a sense that we're not looking after each other.

There's a wonderful bit where Alan confronts me.

and says, you'll believe everything you read on the internet, but you won't believe me, your neighbor for the last 12 years, someone who you know.

You won't believe what I say on my lived experience, but you'll believe all this nonsense that you get amplified on the internet.

And that's true of my character.

Every sort of conspiracy theory he has or sort of strange notion, he goes on the Internet and it's amplified in his head.

And, you know, sort of he gets verification for it on the Internet.

And then he lives with that sort of certainty, even though the evidence in front of him is not that.

But I bet if you looked at that up on the internet, there'll be loads of people saying, yes, you're right.

Anything you want confirmed will be on there.

No, I don't believe the world's flat.

And I do believe that we went to the moon.

Some people don't.

I mean, clever people, you go, what?

There's a great bit of Buzz Aldrin where this guy confronts him and just keeps going up to him saying, you know, you never went to the moon.