Jul 23 2007This is England Director Has Skinhead Experience

This looks like the opening shot of one of those Saturday morning commercials, before Yahtzee/Super Soaker/Jenga/Action Man comes along and changes everyones' lives

A while back, I brought you the trailer for This is England, where Tommy from Snatch plays the head skinhead.

Anyway, the New York Times has an interview with Shane Meadows, the director, in which he talks about the movies and some of his own experiences as a skinhead.

“I never made it clear I was a skinhead before because I’d been to National Front meetings, and because of what happened at the end. But to understand your darker side, you have to dance around the fire. As a filmmaker I don’t shy away from showing the truth, and I don’t think I did as a kid. Although I was misguided at times, I respect the fact that I was searching for something.”

I guess it helps to actually know what skinheads do if you're going to make a skinhead movie. In the skinhead movie I wrote, the characters mostly ride horses and drink soda. I should've hired a consultant.