![]() But of course, those ideas stuck around and those people just went quiet. Absolutely against the extreme right wing who we thought had gone away in 1945. Hopefully Hitler is revolving in some trench just above Hitler's bunker in fact, because everything that he stands for, I am absolutely against. the rest of us are saying, no, make more connections. And that's how we got to that position.Īt a time when a number of right wing politicians around the world are saying separate, nationalism, pull back. And having the head of the school being a Nazi-sympathetic Englishwoman, the idea was why don't you pitch to Judi Dench? And Judi kind of wants to do roles that she's not expected to do. And I also needed to work with other writers, and working with my other collaborators we pushed it to this place. ![]() And so story structure, characters, how they interact, I knew I had to get on top of that and develop an ability in that. I sort of develop it from ideas and kind of riff on it, kind of in a jazz way, until I've got a piece that works. On the challenges of being a standup comedian writing a screenplay But then you find that things aren't exactly what they seem. He's kind of like a representative from the modern audience there, who just wants the world to work and not fall into this Armageddon that it's about to get into. The British don't trust him, he's half German. I think it's interesting, the idea that he's half British, half German, you know - the Germans don't trust him, he's half British. On playing the half German, half English teacher Thomas Miller And that's what we based our thriller on top of." The thriller parts of the story are artistic license, Izzard adds, "But the story of the school being there is absolutely true." And they were trying to make friends, Hitler was trying to make friends with the English because some of the English were into the Nazis, and his idea was that they would be part of the Aryan super race and go on - probably under his jurisdiction - into some sort of future that was a Nazi world. ![]() "It was a Nazi leaning school that had the Nazi swastika in their emblem, as you mentioned, as well as the Union Jack. "German girls came over to learn English, get to know the British aristocracy," she says. Izzard says Bexhill-on-Sea has an aristocratic history and at one time, an astonishing number of schools - including the Augusta Victoria school. It planted an idea that has become a film Six Minutes to Midnight, starring Izzard, Dame Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, and Carla Juri. Wait Wait.Don't Tell Me! Not My Job: Eddie Izzard Gets Quizzed On King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
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