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It was a really euphoric moment, the 29-year-old recalls.
He says it allowed him to create a more nuanced world with a bigger cast of characters.
Clockwise from left: Issy Knowles, Nessah Muthy, Tyrell Williams, Jack Rooke, Thomas Eccleshare.Sophia Spring/Michael Wharley/others supplied
There are talks about exportingBig Boysto America, but no concrete news as yet.
Rooke spent time in a writers room this year, a process he loathed.
I measure [my career] horizontally rather than vertically, he says.
Rooke is repped by Curtis Brown.
Nessah Muthy
Everything is deeply personal, Nessah Muthy says of her work.
Its cheaper than paying for therapy.
If writing is an antidote, its working.
More on those later.
My Mum is from Morden [London] and my Dad is from Mauritius.
That means that I am always shapeshifting and experimenting, she says.
A treatment has been commissioned by Channel 4.
The second project is in with The Forge, which made Jodie Comers BAFTA-winning dramaHelp.
Story produced the critically acclaimedWitness Number Threefor Channel 5 in 2022.
I look for something political and then put it within a personal frame, she says.
I hack my way in and find the human connection.
Im also a bit of a geek … so I will bolster that with massive amounts of research.
Muthy is repped by Independent Talent.
Details like the permanently shirtless Roll Safe reaching for a leather jacket in his otherwise empty wardrobe.
Its a joke that becomes funnier with repeat viewing.
Williams is still working with Fudge Park today.
Theatre is his first love and the setting for the second act of his career.
Its about friendship in the face of regeneration, he says.
I leave it to the audience to make decisions.
Williams is now working with Fudge Park to adaptRed Pitchfor television alongside other projects.
The 28-year-old has written an episode of an unnamed Apple TV+ drama.
He has been working on a project with Daniel Kaluuya and DC Moore, the playwright.
Williams is repped by Casarotto Ramsay & Associates.
This year is no different.
Her yet-to-be-picked-up project received a total of 17 recommendations, putting it two ahead of its nearest competitor.
Knowles wroteModel Behaviourfrom a place of anger.
She was ready to participate in a TV documentary about harassment in fashion when the film was ominously shelved.
She was not a victim herself but knew others who were and felt strongly about representing their stories.
So she started writing.
In its first iteration,Model Behaviourwas a stage show.
She has been developing it for television with Carnival Films, producer of Downton Abbey, since February.
I compare it to Greek mythology, she explains.
You meet a character at the beginning of whats going to be a really difficult journey.
Until then, Knowles has been hired as a writer on a French body-horror feature.
She has also written a pilot for aBlack Mirror-style dystopian drama.
Knowles is repped by Curtis Brown.
Thomas Eccleshare
Thomas Eccleshare bagged his first major television credit with Channel 5sWitness Number Threelast year.
Eccleshare is currently being pulled in the direction of the latter, however.
He is also collaborating with Capaldi, the formerDoctor Whostar, on a comedy-drama pilot for Sky.
Eccleshares version is titledThey Fuck You Upand is housed at Tod Productions, run byVeraproducer Elaine Collins.
Sarahs voice is extremely funny, honest and caustic, he says.
Shes sort of like the best mother in the world and the worst mother in the world.
It is housed at Monumental Television, theHarlotsproducer run by Alison Owen and Debra Hayward.
They both go rogue against their communities to make this extremely odd couple fighting crime in a heightened Hackney.
So where does the 38-year-old want to be in five years time?
Being paid to do this is good.
Eccleshare is repped by Independent Talent in the UK and 3Arts in the US.
