‘I really deserved that Bafta’: Paul Abbott on the liberation of making Clocking Off

‘I really deserved that Bafta’: Paul Abbott on the liberation of making Clocking Off

‘In practical terms, we were asking very big actors to suddenly slide into the background. All the biggest names – Christopher Eccleston, Sarah Lancashire, Ricky Tomlinson – absolutely got it’

My mantra for Clocking Off was “extraordinary moments in ordinary people’s lives”, and seeing how realistic I could make that. It was partly inspired by Dekalog, the Krzysztof Kieślowski TV miniseries, pretentiously. I used to work in a factory and you’d find out secrets about people that were just incredible, so it was also inspired by those memories.

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