Will Sharpe

And it more and more felt like, you know, enjoyable.

He doesn't know how to read a room.

There's a lot written kind of speculatively about neurodiversity.

And I tried not to sort of be too literal about that or to retro-diagnose him, but definitely wanted to play him as slightly other.

And he doesn't understand social norms or can't understand why people are offended if he said something that he's like, well, I think that's true.

So what's the problem?

So he's just kind of like things that are simple to everyone else he can't do.

And he can't communicate successfully in a kind of ordinary, normal way.

But through his music, he's expressing a lot of what he isn't able to say day to day.

And so I guess that's why those sequences felt quite important in terms of understanding him as a character and also understanding his story.

I definitely feel like in your early sort of endeavors, there's like an innocence that is kind of hard to recapture.

You know, maybe you gain some wisdom in exchange.

But I mean, even on Flowers, which was kind of my first proper grown up commission, you know, by Channel 4.

there was definitely a sense of kind of like you didn't know what could go wrong or what was in your way.

And so there's like a real purity to how you approach it.

And I feel like, you know, in...

In the best moments, you maybe manage to recapture a sort of an echo of that.

But I don't think it's a place you could ever go back to, you know.

So there's definitely something really exhilarating and pure, I think, about those early, early endeavors for any artist.

Yeah, yeah.