"Look, look!" "That's me when I was younger." "That's what I had when I was younger - "Daniel's Room"." "Hey, cool, this is my room." "This is my hats." "Got a D hat, DK, with a K on it, you know, K?" "Kaluuya, see, get the concept?" "Daniel Kaluuya." "I hate this hat..." "Can this be positive?" "Is this a positive image?" "Where I work best is at home, in front of a computer... in the early hours of the morning." "See, you're punishing yourself by staying up that late, and you have to wake up early to go into office at like ten." "So you have to write." "I just put in that I have to write and I have to get it done." "You can't be on YouTube, Daniel." "Get off R Kelly, you know what I'm saying?" "I don't care if he's got a midget in a cupboard." "When I write lines, I wanna see if it's all right though." "I say the lines in character, by myself, in the sitting room... 'at 3am." "'That's what I used to do.'" "That's what I tell a lot of people when they ask me about writing." "I used to treat writing like improvisation." "I'll just be the character and I have to be in character to write for the character." "And I'll be like, yeah..." "If it was Chris, it'd be like that, I could be like Joe Dempsey..." "Blackcurrant and ginseng vanilla." "Mm, that bag of leaves..." "Sugar, we use brown granulated." "It's like this." "If anybody wants to send me some sugar, that's the one I want." "I've even got my name on it, look?" ""Daniel", look, and there's even like a self-portrait of me, that's me when I was younger in my..." "In, um, pre-melanin days." ""Daniel is the bestest, top cool dude, it's true" ""When he's around, things are sound" ""And never ever blue."" "Kettle." "Mine takes rather long." "Let's just chill here." "Watch it boil." "I analyse ep three a lot, just seeing the elements of Jal and what she's about, and the brothers and the relationships and how it could change and everything else." "The script editors, Chloe, Holly and Bryan, and Clough, Chris Clough, they're not too much..." "'I think they'll probably just, say if I go a misguided path, 'and just start taking it somewhere else, they'll pull me up and say,'" ""No." "This is not supposed to be in the script." "This is wrong."" "That's what I want cos I need to learn." "I've never written this much before." "It's quite daunting, and I need to know where I'm going wrong, I need to know 'where I need to improve as a writer.'" "Oh, shit." "I think this is the most prized possession of any writer... '... in the world.'" "It's coffee, baby." "It's coffee." "Right, this is gonna be my friend." "It's going to be my friend through this process." "I love this coffee." "Mm..." "The aroma." "I haven't told anyone." "'I thought I just needed to focus on the character of Jal' and where it needs to go." "My... my mum... my mum... my mum wants me to go drama school." "'I think she'll get it when she watches it on TV.'" "When she sees my name and stuff and the episode's finished," "I think that's when she'll understand it." "But now, she's like, "You should've gone drama school." "Yes, Mum."" "'He's a very relaxed boy." "He's very, very relaxed.'" "Sometimes I think he's not going to do it." "He told me, "Mummy, do not look." ""Wait until they've been aired." "That's not my style," That's what he says." "He's working so hard, and I hope the hard work will pay." "To Bristol, to the script meeting for two and a half hours!" "Oh, yeah, the purpose of the script meeting is to tell you where you're going wrong." "Cut this, cut that, go straight into it." "Cheaper, cheaper, cheaper, cheaper..." " Cheap!" " Cheaper!" "Lucy is great..." "a beautiful specimen of a woman." "You're not a proper writer!" "I'm not a proper writer, really." "It's true." "I type like this... on the computer." "We're slowing down, we're about to go to Bristol." "Ha-ha!" "I'm nervous!" "Oh, my God!" "Waiting for fucking ever, man." "The head of Costume Design just came up to me and said he read it, and I'm like, "Agh, it's out now."" "'Critics and the shit." "Everyone's gonna be talking about it and shit.'" "I've got three weeks left." "And it's judgment day, man." "I've asked you to move in with me, you don't seem to be giving me an answer." "I think we'd better have sex." " We'll regroup." " Yes, we'll regroup." "So, Nurse Kelly knows." "Cassie knows." "Michelle knows." "The next thing that should happen..." "The next thing that should happen, I believe, is that, um Is that Jal should tell her dad." "Sitdown." "I said, sit." "I didn't grow up with my dad and that, I find, especially hard as well, writing for a father, cos I didn't have that." "Bryan would say like "This is what a father would say" and I didn't get it." "Youeitherfuckupyour life ,oryoudon't." "You've got an audition, music college, everything you've been working for!" "Everything I've been paying for!" "When you do it, it takes a lot out of you, man." "You go deep, man, for the emotional stuff." "Well, me anyway, when I write, you have to go in the character, in the zone." "You can't just write on the surface and not be in there... with the character." "So that stuff is really hard." "Really, really hard." "She won't speak to her, she's gone." "Gone!" "Right, look..." "You did something." "You fucked up so bad, and one day, we're gonna find out what you did." "I don't know what I did." "When you do it, and then they turn around and say, "No, we don't want it." Ah..." "You know, but this is the way it is, so, can't really..." "Oneofthenicethings about brothers and sisters, I think, isthattheyoftenacceptallkindsofthings that other people make a terrible fuss about." "'Later on, when it's all gone to shit, 'you know, you can have the brothers, 'you know, coming together, all stilted and halting." "'And kinda, not quite able to express themselves, 'but there to tell her that they love her 'and they don't understand why everyone's making such a fuss.'" "Jal..." "Uncle Lynton in the house!" "Hey..." "What are you bawling for?" "I've got a young blood nephew passing through." "I enjoyed writing the brothers." "I remember where I got that idea, for the brothers, what they would do." "I'm not a businessman" "I'm a businessma-a-a-an" "'It just popped in my head, cos I felt a lot of people, a lot of boys, around here were like,'" ""Yeah, I'm going to be a businessman." ""You know, blood, gonna to have my T-shirt range." "Get what I'm saying, blood?"" "And I thought, let me just put that in cos it's not really a scene." "I thought they'd just poke a bit of fun at that." "Oh, we've got Ts for the crips, the bloods, and the gay man." "When they told me, I was like, "Yeah, easy, man." ""When's the readthrough?" "Oh, that's ages away."" "Such an entrance, cos I've got a camera behind me, I look like a knob or something." "Cos I was part of the cast as well, they know me and everyone was quite hyped to read it." "I had a copy of it and I gave it to Larissa." "I haven't told anyone this." "I gave it to Larissa to read, and I didn't want to give it to anyone else." "I was really scared." "They've obviously read it now, cos I went in there for a bit." "And Mike Bailey goes, "Oh, the businessman!"" "in his weird sense of humour." "I don't know what to expect." "I've never done it before, so I don't know what the hell to expect, man." "I ain't got a clue." "I thought we'd single out Dan, to um..." "For maximum embarrassment really." " So, it's Chris Clough, producer..." " And your writer." "What are you?" "A character I found really hard to write was..." "Chris." "I found him quite difficult to write." "Cos, basically, he's one of my favourites." "And... the other writers write him so well." "Oh, look, my pad's this way." "My music audition." " Jal, don't go!" " What?" "I need ya." "It's not like I've got in yet." "Ah, you'll get in!" "And then you'll move in with some fucking music student called Terry from East Anglia, that blows the fucking trombone, and you'll sit up at night discussing your blowing techniques, and then you'll blow him, and..." "I fucking love you." "I never liked trombones." "He's got a unique sense of humour, it's like something else." "It's just out there." "You couldn't really hit with a normal joke, cos it wouldn't be right for Chris." "Cos Chris is not a mainstream person." "'So you have to go a bit out there to think about jokes.'" "It was hard to get out of and I'd find myself on Wikipedia, looking for "brazen bulls"." "Wikipedia, that is crazy shit." "I have one word for you." "Merde!" "Your word for me is "shit"?" "No, I really only have one word." ""Merde" is that word." "'lf I'm going to be honest, I was in a bit of a state.'" "I couldn't really think straight, I could really..." "I was just so like..." "I don't know if it was shock, I don't know what it was, but sometimes I just shut down a bit." "'And I went into the green room and I just lay down." "'Everyone said it was really good, everyone said it was good, but,' when people say that to me, I just don't listen." "I try not to let it sink in." "'But all the cast are really like an honest bunch of people,' so if they thought it was a bit rubbish, they wouldn't talk to me for a while." "But they still talk to me so it's cool." "'And also, Larissa, I wanted to give her a good... a good episode." "'I wanted to give her a good chance to... '" "Cos I think, last series, I don't think she was given a chance to show what she can do." "I wanted to give Larissa a lot to do and give her an opportunity to shine, baby!" "He gave me..." "He gave me challenges." "'I'm really good friends with Daniel." "I think he really captured Jal, 'and he sat and really thought about the emotions she'd been through and looked... and did his research from series one, and took on board a lot of emotion she had," "and where she was mentally, and brought that over to series two." "And he really thought about each stage that she was going through, especially with the whole pregnancy thing." "No, it was good." "Cos there's so many ways you can take being pregnant, and um, I think he considered that and he brought the idea that he could to it." "He did very well." "I'm very proud of you, Daniel." "'When I was sitting there, I was like, "Ha!" This woman, the college director was like, "Hi."'" ""You're saying lines that I wrote!"" "I was in my boxers, writing that line, in front of my chair, drinking ginger beer at 2am." "'And you're saying it.'" "But whenever you see the footage, it's proper like, phfff, you know?" "It's proper like, this is like overwhelming shit, like." "'Where the fuck were you?" "'Jalanda, there is a reason for everything." "'Whatever you do now about this baby... '" " It's quite a powerful scene." "It plays really well." " It is, man." "It does, doesn't it?" "'When I watched it, I was like, "This is really well acted," but, um... ' it was weird seeing that, but I feel I wasn't putting myself on glass in front of everybody," "because it wasn't really me." "And it's what Jal would do in that position." "In that situation, what would happen." "How have I done this, man?" "I've learnt so much, man." "I've learnt... so much..." "You've been conditioned to think the way Chris Clough thinks, or Bryan," "Chloe, Holly... and all them people." "You conditioned to think like that." "So when you look back at one, the first draft, you're like..." "Whoa, what is this?" "Cut this out." "If I got offered to do the script now, with what I know," "I would attack it completely differently from the way I did, cos you just learn so much." "Right, I've learnt masses, a massive amount from doing Skins." "Wicked." "I'll thank Jack Clough in production!" "It was wicked." "Big up Skins, I'll thank Bryan Elsley." "Big up, Holly Hughes." "And big up, Chloe Moss and big up, Chris Clough." "Big up, my mum, and my sister and my family." "Big up, London." "Big up, Uganda!" "Yeah, thank you for watching the documentary." "Safe."