Will Sharpe

I mean, maybe, to be honest with you, probably when Tom Kingsley and I, we made a short film.

He was working as a runner at an advertising agency and I was playing a junior doctor in a soap, in a sort of continuing medical drama.

Yeah, we had worked together at university and we made a short film together, went to Japan.

He borrowed a prosumer camera from his advertising agency.

I had two weeks off this soap.

And we sort of made a short film together.

And then his boss...

watched it and was like, oh, that's great.

What if I gave you 50 grand to make a feature film?

And we, of course, were like, oh, my God, that's so much money.

Could we ever do it?

And had sort of been given permission to imagine that it was possible to do that.

And so I went off and wrote the script and we started trying to figure out how we could do it for 50 grand.

Then his boss came back from a sabbatical.

and basically just said, I've changed my mind.

Why would I give you 50 grand?

That's insane.

But by then we were so in mode and had sort of pictured it that we had the momentum, and so we started trying to raise the money ourselves, writing to people we'd worked for, friends, parents that we knew were wealthy, and all of that, and managed to raise 20 grand and made that feature film just in sort of complete innocence.

And then after that, I think...

were considered to be sort of legit filmmakers and I feel like probably until we had done that maybe there was like a precariousness or at least like a fragility in sort of like would you feel slightly fraudulent identifying as someone who's doing that you know for a job.