Jack Rooke

Well, thank you so much.

Yeah, I mean, it's...

I won like maybe last Sunday and I wasn't really expecting to because I'd won the year before.

And the kind of thing in America, people win, you know, 17 of the same awards for each season they do.

But in the UK, that doesn't really happen.

Except if you're an adolescent, darling.

maybe but that adolescence is a limited series so they can only win once for that one series whereas we won on series two so when it was coming to series three i was like i'm coming merely as a sort of ceremonial piece of the furniture at this point so then to win again i hadn't prepared a speech i didn't know what i was saying i had no clue maybe you brought

And it's because I've been doing, I've set up this commission with the roundhouse, which is an amazing, like art where you've performed at the roundhouse before, like art center meets music venue underneath the main stage.

There's all these like creative hubs for young people to go and explore creativity, to go and start learning how to DJ or rehearsal rooms or whatever.

start up a radio station, blah, blah, blah.

And I've been involved with them since I was a kid.

And we've set up a commission to try to lobby the government to look into better ways for young people to access the arts.

So I'd sat on this Zoom for this commission, and you're hearing people from all over the country who are trying to advocate for better arts accessibility.

And all these stats were just sort of in my head from a week of just being sat there.

It was killer.

And then when I won, I was like, oh, my God, you know, all I can really do in this moment is say, this TV show wouldn't exist without the arts, without fringe theatres, without comedy clubs, without arts bursaries.

And all the stuff that I benefited from when I started, there was a thing called Ideas Tap, which was a resource for young people where you could apply for little grants of money.

Big Boys was funded by something called the BFI Young Audiences Content Fund.

Doesn't exist.

None of it exists.