Edward Lovelace discovered Adam Pearson through Under The Skin

How you doing? Hi, lovely to meet you. I'm Matthew with Banchoners. Hey mate, you alright? Yeah, great. So great to be here, so great to perform. I'd just love to know how this all started. So how did you come to meet Adam and how did you become attached to this project? Am I holding this or are you holding this? Whichever you prefer, honestly. I'll hold it if you prefer. Okay, cool. I'll hold it. It's really small, I'm sorry. So, yes, I stalked Adam. I saw Adam in Under the Skin in 2014. and um yeah just loved his performance in that film and loved that film so much um and i just thought a lot about him i guess like subconsciously like in the next like 10 years uh that went past i just thought about um i wonder what other films he's going to be in i wonder how much of his own personal experience of life he brought to that part um and then i finally put up the courage to you know him you know his agent and then we hung out together and quite quickly it was like the film that both of us wanted to make was kind of born i guess it was like a film about adam but very much about movies about the films that have inspired him and guided him in his life and also it was going to be about this girl playing a big part in the film that was really important to Adam, um so yeah it kind of just happened and quite quickly and easily just kind of got going and uh just speaking to Adam now he seems like someone who's so wise and rich with life experience very much i was just wondering if there's like a particular lesson you've learned from working with adam something he's taught you or something you've learned from him many things many things um i would say that um i would say Adam's taught me that kindness and laughter are like super powers and you can like overcome more things than you think by like making a joke and like uh kind of um finding the positive and just like steering away from the negative that's what he's taught me like i've been in very uh intimate spaces with Adam during so many joyful times but also some more tricky times i think Adam finding a way to laugh make someone else laugh uh that's like really inspiring i think that genuinely like changes things so he's taught me to try and laugh more basically and uh finally is there like a particular memory you have about making the film like a fun memory or something that stood out about the production of it? I'd love to know. Yeah, fun memory. It doesn't have to be fun, just make it a memory. A memory, a memory, a memory. It can be fun if you like it. Um, I think being in New York with Adam when he was shooting A Different Man, that was pretty amazing, that was pretty special. Actually Adam had like talked about the fact that in New York, before we went there together, he had been there before and he was saying um my experience of New York is that people like just strangers come up to you in the street everyone wants to speak obviously London's a bit like that too but he was at New York is like another like level of that so I was intrigued to be like I wonder how what would it be like being in New York with Adam and it was true so many people are coming up to him wanting to hang out with him and wanting to like crack jokes with him and learn about his career in his life house. We filmed a lot in Adam's house and I promised Adam's mum on about 15 occasions this is our last day of filming and then we get on turning up with the crew and actually recently Adam was like, Ed, my mum thinks the film is still happening. Thankfully we have a premiere, we're no longer filming. But yeah, it was a good time, it was a joy. Excellent, thank you so much, it's been a pleasure to speak to you. Thank you, thank you sir. Cheers mate.