 This movie is a great cast, what would you say is your funniest or most memorable moment from filming? Actually shooting in Jamaica, we shot the film in Jamaica and London and there was a moment where we were shooting in an area called Rose Gardens where essentially the whole community came out, some of them were extra, some of them just wanted to be a part of the film as a spectator and it was just a really beautiful moment you know to see a whole community sort of like step back in time you know in the part of that film it was the 1970s everyone dressed up it was like this big fancy dress party and everyone was really really up for it up until like six in the morning it's great. Did you just say whoever wants to come join in bring some 70s clothes? No actually interestingly enough you know we were very lucky there was a little rivalry between another community it was a very serious situation you know there's gang warfare and then you know these two communities decided to just call it quits so that we could come and film and we put flyers out and people that wanted to be a part of it from both communities came and essentially it was a bit of you know life imitating art art it's a life because in the story the two rival communities come together in this scene so it was really sort of interesting to have that. My most memorable moment was the love scene because I've never it was my first love scene so I was very nervous I was very nervous right and so like weeks before I was asking Idris you know so how's this gonna work like what do I need to do but Amel made me very comfortable Idris made me very comfortable it was a close set it was very funny he came in my dressing room like a few minutes before and he said you know sometimes people have a drink before you know and like two minutes later his assistant brought up a bottle of Bayesian rum this is right after Amel had given me some wine because he was nervous I was partially intoxicated going into that scene but it was very nice and you know Amel was very conscious of the fact I was nervous Idris was very conscious of it as well and it was great so my funniest scene is a guy called Mark Reiner who's you know everyone is just glad here and we had this big fight scene in Jamaica and I meant to bat him up and I literally mashed my finger up for the rest of the shoot on his face by punching him so that's my funniest moment in reflection because I meant to be a bad man and it it's just not so if you've mashed your finger up does that mean that he's got a scar on his face now he did have a scar that's right Mark you remember that didn't you he's right by but I've given him a bit of character now it's a bad scene yeah I was gonna ask about the sex scene if it's a closed set is it still quite awkward like how you obviously have to redo it a few times it was quite awkward because even though it's a closed set there's still the cameraman and you know the light and then of course Idris isn't is in an extreme watching it on the monitor so you're still conscious of people looking at you and then every time they said cut Amel was just like draw the sheets over his and stuff the main lesson I learned from doing this film is just how to be comfortable vulnerable um because you have to remember it's not you it's the character and what they would do in a natural moment so I learned a lot just from being in that moment I bet the it did how did you find work of Idris and his direct to debut it was fantastic you know I know people say that but he's such a down-to-earth sort of the other type of guy very encouraging and fun like he makes a lot of bad jokes a lot like he's a good bad joker we had a boy I've learned I've become a better actor but also just just a brilliant collaboration do you have a favorite particular bad joke I enjoyed like whenever he believed the scene was like awesome he'd go like selector so we had shirt that said selector I brought mine did you I did yeah which was really bad when you think you've done a decent scene and you hear nothing you're like Idris yeah you'd all right DJ Idris if he's like so and he would say how do you feel and I'm like how do you feel like if you're good I'm good you know what I mean yeah so I heard that after every like good scene that you'd shout selector this is true after every good take it had to be a good take it was a good take selector if it if it wasn't a good take one more please that was it and I heard you got t-shirts printed would select on it for the rap party you know my gift to the crew was selector I don't know why as a DJ when I was growing up if someone said selector that was means the tune's so good you have to play it again it sort of doesn't work with the logic but when we said selector everybody knew that was a good take what is it about this film in particular that made it want to be your directorial debut I think it's because it was a book that I read when I was really young and the character D I could sort of relate to him a little bit you know it's just this kid that you know had a trauma and I didn't have a trauma but you know every kid between the ages of sort of 14 and 19 has massive decisions to make and it's which way do you go it was also a DJ um and I grew up in you know I literally sort of recreated some of my memories of growing up and going to early blues dances and I knew that I could make this film because I kind of lived some of it um it wasn't like a a step out out into um the abyss it was something that I sort of grew up in there was a lot short in Jamaica and in London the language is very different and there's like a slang which going on so did you have to learn any particular phrases she had to learn her whole Jamaican accent she's still in character they're not strong enough you need to stop that now tell them your English tell them your English he is you know what's funny some parts of the film Amel's sound way more Jamaican than like me and Sheldon and every who are actually Jamaicans because we're conscious of the fact that people have to actually understand you right so we're trying to be very standard but of course Jamaican because it's authentic but Amel went so I'm so proud of you man yeah he went in with the accent he went in yeah we loved Idris in the four movies would you be up for being in the Marvel universe or being a superhero let's do it today we're signing it is the contract yes there you go yes I want to fly is there any particular superhero that you'd like to be played I want to redo Wesley Snipes blade man that's so cool listen I wanted to be his daughter so we're in competition for the play yes I wanted to play his daughter you know what I mean like something about him to I can age up I have to save the world I can age up yeah yeah yeah you can I believe it's like it appeared in every film no just make up on here and then boom I'll just you know I can look like I'm gonna play blade and she's gonna play blade's daughter