Dexter Fletcher Interview

‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ star Dexter Fletcher talked to us at The Jameson Empire Awards about his upcoming plans.

“I’ve just directed my first film called ‘Wild Bill’ with Charlie Creed-Miles and Will Poulter in it, and Andy Serkis and Olivia Williams, so I’m editing and getting all the sound and music together for that. Hopefully in a month or two we’ll have a complete version of that and start doing the rounds.”

“It’s a lovely, funny, smart British movie.”

The film tells the story of Bill Hayward who out on parole after 8 years inside returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves.

Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on. Although Dean the older boy has found a job and is doing his best to be a father to his younger brother Jimmy, the arrival of Bill has brought them to the attention of social services. With the danger of being put into care looming, Dean forces his feckless Dad to stay by threatening to grass him up for dealing.

If there's one thing Bill doesn't want it's to go back to prison. He reluctantly agrees to stay for a week o help fool social services that the boys are being cared for. Having never really grown up himself Bill quickly connects with Jimmy and through this new bond starts to realize what he's been missing. He has a family, a place in the world. He is a father.

However, their happy family set up is short lived when Jimmy gets into trouble with Bill's dangerous old cohorts. To sort it out would breach the terms of his license and risk sending him back to Jail. Bill's next steps will show what sort of a Dad he wants to be. A good one or a free one.

The actor-come-director, who has more recently appeared in ‘Kick-Ass’, ‘Layer Cake’ and the TV Series ‘Band of Brothers’, said his new, wild hairstyle wasn’t for a new role though:

“No, this is simply because I like to grow my hair long when I don’t have to cut it off, and my wife likes it long!”