“And then there's a teenager…” he follows.
“Like, for example, the strangler character, the dad, that's about an apathy that I witness in a lot of parents – actually it's not even specific to parents – which is a feeling I think everyone has deep down, which is, ‘Wouldn't it be great if I could just shut anyone up who's pointing out my flaws? And I could just go on thinking that I might actually be the most incredible person in the world?'
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“Everyone's a kind of amalgamation of a person who represents a fear, a stance or a feeling I've had before,” begins London-born Demetriou, whose credits include Phoebe Waller-Bridge's phenomenon Fleabag and Apple TV+'s murder-mystery series The Afterparty. So, what can he tell us about the characters he explores? “There would have been some fun parts for her, but it didn't work out!” “Tash was in Toronto shooting What We Do in The Shadows,” he says, referencing his comedy star sister, Natasia Demetriou. So, this was a good opportunity to get people like Sian Clifford, Jon Pointing and Johnny Sweet. “It's an honour that they would be up for coming back and doing more stuff, but at the same time, in Stath, I struggled to get everyone that I love into it. “My dream is to be able to work with everyone from that cast in one way or another for as long as I have breath in my lungs,” he says, chuckling. “It felt like a fertile bit of soil that wasn't so specific that it was cutting me off from using things, but wasn't so unspecific that it just felt like a random selection of stuff for an hour.”Ĭertain to have audiences rolling in their seats, the one-off sketch show takes viewers right through from the womb to awkward adulthood, and the not-so-golden years, unpacking the most embarrassing, heartening and, ultimately, futile phases of a life lived in the anxious modern day.Įach stage is articulated through a different character played by Demetriou, who is in turn joined by comedy greats, including his Stath Lets Flats co-stars Ellie White, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Katy Wix. “Well, life is a pretty familiar story, and it lent itself to a variety of characters and an opportunity for me to express some comedic ideas and observations that I have,” reasons Demetriou. “I was like, what is an arc that is familiar enough that people can settle in and get comfy, and they know where the end goal is?” asks the quadruple Bafta winner, who wrote, stars in and served as executive producer on the feature. It was an idea that came to the 35-year-old as he pondered which subject would “sustain an audience's attention for an hour with sketches” – especially given that consumption is often now short-form or whilst scrolling through your phone, he notes. His latest genius comes in the form of a Netflix special titled A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou, which, through the medium of catchy songs and oddball characters, takes audiences on a hilarious – and insightful – journey through life's pivotal stages. Stath Lets Flats creator Jamie Demetriou can do no wrong – not least when it comes to comedy.
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