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Now many actors will tell you about their lucky break. For can Flash’s day get any worse? You’ll have to watch the
some they were in the right place at the right time. Others film to find out.
may have trained for years at acting school while one or
two, their face just happened to fit. Made in Birmingham
But for acting newcomer Dylan Duffus, who plays the At a number of points in the movie the actors start
lead role of Flash in new movie 1 Day, his lucky break impressively spitting lyrics over hip hop and grime beats,
was something out of the ordinary. ‘At the time I was the letting the audience know what they are thinking and
script consultant for the film so I was involved in it from feeling. And even Dylan admits that the director got the
2006. I’ve seen the full production of it from the beginning soundtrack, ‘spot on’.
to the end.’ Shot on the streets of Birmingham, the opening
When Dylan took on the job of script consultant, he scenes overlook the busy Spaghetti Junction, which then
never imagined for one second he would end up playing cuts to rival gangs separated by different areas and
the lead: ‘I wasn’t even meant to act in it! That was the coloured bandanas, marching to a stand-off which results
wickedest thing. So when Penny (the director) decided to in a shootout.
make me the main lead it was a shock. I came to work 1 Day paints a cold but vivid picture of the gang
one day and I just started acting. culture that plagues the city of Birmingham and many
others around the UK. Some may say it glamorises the
Hip Hop – the Movie gang culture, but Dylan praises director Penny
Written and directed by acclaimed film-maker Penny Woolcock’s intentions, and explains there is a deeper
Woolcock (Tina Goes Shopping, The Death of meaning in the film.
Ashie
Klinghoffer, Mischief Night), 1 Day is the UK’s first hip
hop musical. The movie follows the trials and tribulations Staying true
of a young guy called Flash, who has one day to recoup ‘Penny did her homework. She’s not going to do
the funds he’s spent from money that was left with him something and make it fake or false – she’s going to put
for safekeeping by his ‘friend’ Angel who, to Flash’s it there in its rawest form and that’s what she enjoys
surprise, gets an early release from prison. Pursued by a doing. There was a hidden message behind it all, but you ords by Richard
rival gang, his three irate babymothers and his granny, have to watch it to understand.’
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