Noel Clarke is probably best known to the tv-watching public as Mickey Smith in the first two seasons of Doctor Who (and the closing episodes of the forthcoming season if the rumours are true) but his work away from that show has been just as striking, if utterly different.
In 2006 he wrote and appeared in the controversial film kidulthood, depicting the dramas among the street kids of an urban housing estate. It was gritty, uncompromising and while certainly not to everyone’s tastes, provided a bold statement about film-making and youth culture. This wasn’t shiny, snarky, mockney rebels having a ‘larf’ , it was a call-out to a generation often personified (rightly or wrongly) and marginalised as simply armed, hooded and dangerous.
The film may not have been able to compete against the avalanche of American imports and blockbusters, but it proved it had staying power - taking a considerable amount of money from a release that amounted to less than fifty screens across the country. Clarke, who starred in the film as well as writing it, rightly got kudos for the project and he clearly sees it as just as relative to his career as any dimensions in time and space. “If I went to a financier and said ‘I’m the guy from Doctor Who, make me the lead in your film…’, they’d laugh me out the door!” he tells me wryly. “ You won’t find any tabloid stuff, I don’t fall out of clubs, don’t have rock-star mates who get off jail countless times. I just try do my work.” It’s a solid worth ethic and one which helped lead to a sequel, adulthood - out this week - which catches up with Clarke’s character, Sam, who has just been released from prison after the fatal consequences of his actions at the end of the previous outing. Though still street-wise and savvy, Sam wants nothing to do revenge and retribution - in fact he actively puts the word out that he wants no trouble. For him, if he gets his wish, the cycle of tit-for-tat violence and defence of one’s ‘territory’ is over. As is often the case in life, though, one often doesn’t always get their wish and it soon becomes clear that old rivalries die hard. First Sam is threatened and then his mother. As the intimidation grows various key members of his childhood gang are pulled one way then the other by the various agendas on show. Is drug addict Lexi (ex-Eastenders Scarlett Alice Johnson ) a help or a hinderance? Is Sam’s brother being manipulated to take his own brother’s life? And how violent must Sam be to rid himself of violence in the long-term?
“ Hopefully its one of the better performances I’ve done,” he explains. “ I’d like to think the writing is relevant. It tries to deliver a moral message that you can walk away and break the cycle of violence. I feel kidaulthood portrayed what was actually happening. People arguably ignored what they were being told and nobody wanted to listen. We’re trying, with this latest film in particular, to show people that there are alternatives… I tried to give it my own style and I did that to the best of my ability and I can grow and improve with everything I do.”
It’s dangerous to take on too many roles, but with Clarke stepping into the director’s shoes - taking over from kidulthood’s Menhaj Huda - there’s an undeniable sense that he’s managed to juggle the writing/acting/directing duties with aplomb. This second slice of street-life should definitely satisfy those who appreciated Clarke’s first chapter and while there’s always a risk that its attitude and (sometimes) heavy urban-dialects/slang may not attract the wider audience already queuing for the more generic summer smash-hits, it is the sort of film which is liable to get very solid reviews for its style and message. It should be applauded for its impeach, gritty but ultimately hopeful tone.
Clarke is definitely a talent to watch and though Doctor Who may have got him a big audience (and some sly but not distracting cameos from colleagues in this film) adulthood is the most impressive entry to date on what is sure to be a growing resume.
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