‘Ice Cube was a big fan. Whitney Houston loved it. And when I met Nelson Mandela, he did a double take’
When I was at the National Film and Television School, Channel 4 was running a writers’ competition. Unbeknown to me, one of the actors in a play I’d written and directed sent my script off. When I got the call saying I’d won, I went, “Oh, fuck off!” and hung up, thinking it was a joke.
