the director of Train spotting a mini-series about the Sex Pistols, the founding punk band, that rocks. A message that rings so loud and clear almost fifty years later.
“I come from this proletarian environment. I am their age. The Sex Pistols ignited the flames of chaos in me. They proved that we don’t have to become our parents and go from youth to old age overnight. The working class was not doomed to nothingness,” hails Danny Boyle. In A gun, the British director is dedicating a biographical mini-series to the founding band of punk. Steve Jones, Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicis, Paul Cook and their mentors, stylist Vivienne Westwood and her producer husband Malcolm McLaren, form a kaleidoscopic, unbridled, unbridled portrait of youth taking the UK by storm. Ankylosed union of the seventies.
The series highlights the fragility that these children have suffocated
Maisie Williams
At the casting, Toby Wallace, Anson Boone, Thomas Brodie-Sangster learned to play and sing. to live “Danny was taking our anger out on the system and unleashing us on set, which was a real gig. We never knew when the cameras were rolling,” marvels Maisie Williams, 25, who plays supermodel and punk icon Pamela Rook. “The series undermines the official image of aggressive idiots. The series highlights the fragility that these children have suffocated,” warns the fighter game of thrones , surprised by revelations about blood lovers Sid and Nancy; “Yesterday’s artistic and social rebellion joins the frustration of my contemporaries, bombarded by news, social networks, who find themselves unheard. The Pistols overcame their plight and weighed in. Because we are calling for change, it inspires me,” says Maisie Williams.
gun, six 60-minute episodes on Disney+.
Source: Le Figaro