Jack Rooke
👤 Speaker
802
total appearances
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Podcast Appearances
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
She's in a show called Better Things.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
Look, Better Things is a hugely... When I first started writing Big Boys, I was watching Better Things.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
And I think the way that they play out...
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
relationships and those moments in which, and maybe particularly, like, I sort of feel like I come from more of a matriarchal family than anything.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
Like, I've got a lot of aunties, a lot of female cousins, nieces.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
My mum's a big presence.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
It's, like, it's a beautiful, beautiful... I think that's why I want to write big girls.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
I prefer writing women in a weird way.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
Even though the show's called Big Boys, Cousin Shannon.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
I don't even think better things in particular.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
Dance with Celia Imrie.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Jack Rooke
Then met Celia Imrie the next day at this Dunhill dinner.