Big Boys creator and writer Jack Rooke made an emotional confession about the hit Channel 4 series during an appearance on Sunday Brunch. The semi-autobiographical comedy drama, which aired its third and final series last year, followed a university student dealing with his father's death and exploring his sexuality.
Rooke Opens Up About Missing the Show
Speaking to hosts Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer, Rooke admitted he has started to miss the programme. 'I've started to miss it, and I didn't, because it came out maybe February last year, so for the year afterwards, I was like, 'Oh, I'm glad that's done.' And then the last few weeks, I'm like, 'Oh, it's sad that we're not filming another scene.' Because we filmed every summer for like three years in a row. So I'm sad about it,' he said.
Cast Bond and Humour
Rooke praised the cast, including Dylan Llewellyn as Jack and Jon Pointing as Danny. 'I loved them all,' he said, joking: 'I just terrorise them all all the time. They can't really get away from me... They're great.' He added: 'We are kind of that sickly thing of we actually all do just genuinely love each other, which is so horrible when you hear actors or people being like, 'We're like a family.' I'm like, 'Yeah, all right. Three of you hate each other. Two of you are slagging each other off in the WhatsApp, in another WhatsApp group you don't know about.''
Father's Day and Good Grief
Rooke also discussed his stage show Good Grief, which he wrote in his 20s after losing his dad as a teenager. 'I wrote that show with my nan,' he said. 'It was when I was at uni, and I stole loads of equipment from my uni to spend a day filming with her. So the whole show is sort of about me losing a parent at 15 and her losing a child at 80.' He reflected on Father's Day: 'And there will be lots of people watching today for whom Father's Day is a tricky one. I'm firmly in the Dead Dad Club, and I believe that the more you can sort of find community in that, the less sort of scary and hard it is. And humour is the best way to do that.'
Sunday Brunch airs on Channel 4 on Sundays at 10am.
