Selected credit / Feature film
Harold’s Going Stiff
I play Jon Grayson in Keith Wright’s British zombie comedy drama, a low-budget film with a very particular tone: funny, bleak, odd and unexpectedly tender.
A very British sort of apocalypse
Harold’s Going Stiff follows Harold Gimble, a man suffering from a frightening new condition that is slowly turning him into something zombie-like. As his illness gets worse, Harold and his care worker Penny are drawn into a world of fear, rumour and violent vigilantes.
The film works because it does not treat the idea only as a horror gag. It is funny, but it is also about loneliness, illness, panic and how people behave when they decide someone else is a threat.
Playing Jon Grayson
I play Jon Grayson, one of the men caught up in the uglier side of that panic. It is the kind of part where the comedy comes from recognisable behaviour rather than from pushing for a joke.
I like that sort of work. You are inside a genre film, but you are still trying to make the person feel real enough that the audience believes the world around them.
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