| Jonny Lee steps up to the mike
It's a gangster movie, but as opposed to face-offs with broken
bottles, it's about seeing who's best on the old microphone
at the karaoke.
And the gunfight scene, with me gunning for Rhys Ifans and
Sean Pertwee, is particularly hysterical because nobody gets
hurt. Basically they're like most criminals - ordinary people
doing, er, illegal stuff.
Ray Winstone is head honcho of the North London mob I worm
my way into through his nephew, my best friend since primary
school, played by Jude Law. I see him as the way out of my
dead-end courier job. Part of the appeal to play him, apart
from the karaoke of course, is because he is extremely unlikeable.
He has some underlying psychotic tendencies and I based him
on a real postman who re-invented himself as a gangland killer.
The singing was such a laugh. I do the old Tony Christie
number, "Avenues And Alleyways". Dominic Anciano, who wrote,
directed and produced the film with Ray Burdis, thought it
was a brilliant tune and originally the whole film was going
to be written around it. I knew the song inside out because
we played it 24 hours a day at Dom's house and I pleaded to
be allowed to do it. Kathy Burke plays Ray's wife and Denise
Van Outen is Dom's girlfriend. The film is entirely
improvisational - very scary but something you never get to
do in our job so a chance you just couldn't throw away.
taken from THIS IS
LONDON
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