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Something Rooke was keen to recreate was his experience of male friendship. “Sometimes I think it is better to revisit your past from the point of nostalgic writing than having to embody it physically,” he says. There is natural humour in tragedy.” Still, he is grateful that he didn’t personally have to relive the agony following his Dad’s death and all the subsequent trauma. “I always wanted the pain to be in the series, but I hate it when sadness turns into emotional porn.
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Rooke’s ability to find hilarity in even the lowest moments is a real skill. “Like Jack in the show, I did drink poppers once too”.Ĭamille Coduri plays Peggy, a role based on Rooke’s mum (Channel 4/Chris Harris) I had to go backwards and forward from Argos desperately searching for new sheets that matched my duvet set,” he cackles. “There was dripping blood all over my sheets. He recalls a time he was “going south on a gentleman” when his trademark curly hair got stuck on his partner’s nose piercing.
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Embarrassing they may be, but Rooke’s stories are also hilarious. My mum is the biggest grafter I know and would come home stinking of bacon, but she’d never step out the house without looking the f***ing part! There’s an elegance to that,” he says.īegrudgingly though, Rooke admits that “the most embarrassing moments from the show are the real bits”. “British working class older women are basically invisible, culturally, and even when they are represented they’re tired or covered in sweat because they’re always working. Despite being a widow in her 50s, Rooke was determined to show her as “optimistic”. He talks lovingly about writing Peggy, the character based on his mum. “I’m really grateful for having made stuff in the past that I have found too exposing or like a millennial overshare,” he says referring to his second show Happy Man (actually one of the most moving experiences I’ve ever had in a theatre when I saw it at the Edinburgh Fringe back in 2017). But, though the comedian admits that going over upsetting moments from his past was “at times difficult”, he was careful to make sure it never overwhelmed him. The role of Jack is played by Dylan Llewellyn, the scene-stealing “wee English fella” James from Derry Girls, who Rooke gushes is “the perfect comic actor to play the part”. “You know? Because you don’t see me but you hear my voice narrating the story from a kind of knowing perspective,” he laughs. Aside from being a writer and executive producer on the series, Rooke likens his role to Mary Alice’s in Desperate Housewives. An amalgamation of Rooke’s past three theatre shows, Big Boys is a broadly autobiographical snapshot of his time at university following the death of his father, Laurie, when Rooke was 15. His new Channel 4 comedy Big Boys is no less personal. “Some people might think I’ve overdone it, but grief is the thing that has shaped my identity more than anything else in my life,” he says. The jokingly self-confessed “one trick pony” (actually a comedian, writer and mental health ambassador) has built a prolific career over the last seven years writing about his experiences with mental health and loss through his teens and early twenties - he’s now 27. “I’m actually quite sick of myself at this point,” laughs Jack Rooke. Jon Pointing as Danny and Dylan Llewellyn as Jack (Channel 4/Christopher Harris)