<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Matt wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><i>Trivia time! Jake Wood is not the only actor to play two different<br></i></div><i>roles in Press Gang, I can think of at least two others... if we're<br>counting flashback scenes ;) . Are there any others?</i><br><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>--------</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Funnily enough, I was thinking of asking this question myself. Seeing</div><div>Jake Wood yesterday, got me thinking.</div><div><br></div><div>I can only think of one other actor who plays two different parts</div><div>in two different episodes. Abigail Docherty, who plays Frazz'</div><div>chess partner in PICKING UP THE PIECES and also plays the disembodied</div><div>voice that Spike speaks to in THE REST OF MY LIFE, both from series 2.</div><div><br></div><div>Vince Deehan</div><div><i><br></i></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM Matt Saunders <<a href="mailto:matts@yoyo.org">matts@yoyo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Vince,<br>
<br>
I've heard a lot of good things coming out of BFI Flare and it sounds<br>
like an awesome event. The London South Bank venue is particularly<br>
special - I've not been there very often but do remember going to a<br>
screening of "Page One" in a children's TV special event there a hundred<br>
or so years ago. If I remember rightly Zammo and Ro-Land from Grange<br>
Hill were there, and that show was the main focus. No actual real-life<br>
PG alumni sadly!<br>
<br>
I hope that Drive Back Home comes to my local, the Cambridge Arts<br>
Picturehouse. It feels like it needs to be seen on the big screen. So<br>
glad you had a great experience - it's always extra special when the<br>
actual people are in the room.<br>
<br>
Trivia time! Jake Wood is not the only actor to play two different<br>
roles in Press Gang, I can think of at least two others... if we're<br>
counting flashback scenes ;) . Are there any others?<br>
<br>
<br>
Matt.<br>
<br>
<br>
On Mar 25, Vince Deehan wrote:<br>
> Dear all,<br>
> <br>
> This afternoon I was at the BFI Flare film festival watching a film, in the<br>
> presence of two Press Gang actors! <br>
> <br>
> I was at this afternoon's screening of the film DRIVE BACK HOME, starring Alan<br>
> Cumming and Charlie Creed-Miles. They play two brothers in 1970s Canada, one<br>
> brother is gay (Cumming) and one is straight (Creed-Miles).<br>
> <br>
> Just before the film started, a door opened at the front of the screening room<br>
> and in walked a few men. One, I later realised, was the film's director Michael<br>
> Clowater, and with him were two men - one was Charlie Creed-Miles (!!) and<br>
> walking in with him was<br>
> another Press Gang actor, Jake Wood (!!).<br>
> <br>
> Jake Wood is not in the film, but I assume he was there to watch the film as a<br>
> friend of Charlie Creed-Miles.<br>
> <br>
> Jake Wood is an actor who appears in two episodes of Press Gang, as different<br>
> characters. He is very famous in the UK, for his role in the TV soap<br>
> EASTENDERS.<br>
> <br>
> The director and Charlie gave a short introduction to the film, and then they<br>
> took seats<br>
> in the cinema to watch it with us.<br>
> <br>
> I assume that Jake and Charlie sat together. <br>
> <br>
> I shared the film trailer here recently and was fully expecting a really good<br>
> film, but I was not prepared for how amazing the film was. It was so powerful<br>
> and very moving in places.<br>
> <br>
> Alan Cumming was superb, as always. However, it was Charlie Creed-Miles, who<br>
> gives a really wonderful, subtle and ultimately deeply moving portrayal of<br>
> brotherly love. He was so brilliant. I totally believed he was a Canadian man<br>
> from a small town in 1970. <br>
> <br>
> The film got a great reception and I enjoyed the Q+A afterwards with the<br>
> director and Charlie. <br>
> <br>
> The film has been released in Canada, but doesn't yet have a US or UK release<br>
> date listed on <a href="http://imdb.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">imdb.com</a><br>
> <br>
> I do hope it will be released, as I am positive that many of us here would<br>
> enjoy it.<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://youtu.be/nyykHpEmLec?si=kbiuUbgJk_pmX2Ow" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/nyykHpEmLec?si=kbiuUbgJk_pmX2Ow</a><br>
> <br>
> Vince Deehan<br>
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