[pressgang] Charlie Creed-Miles in DRIVE BACK HOME
Matt Saunders
matts at yoyo.org
Wed Mar 26 13:19:30 GMT 2025
Hi Vince,
I've heard a lot of good things coming out of BFI Flare and it sounds
like an awesome event. The London South Bank venue is particularly
special - I've not been there very often but do remember going to a
screening of "Page One" in a children's TV special event there a hundred
or so years ago. If I remember rightly Zammo and Ro-Land from Grange
Hill were there, and that show was the main focus. No actual real-life
PG alumni sadly!
I hope that Drive Back Home comes to my local, the Cambridge Arts
Picturehouse. It feels like it needs to be seen on the big screen. So
glad you had a great experience - it's always extra special when the
actual people are in the room.
Trivia time! Jake Wood is not the only actor to play two different
roles in Press Gang, I can think of at least two others... if we're
counting flashback scenes ;) . Are there any others?
Matt.
On Mar 25, Vince Deehan wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> This afternoon I was at the BFI Flare film festival watching a film, in the
> presence of two Press Gang actors!
>
> I was at this afternoon's screening of the film DRIVE BACK HOME, starring Alan
> Cumming and Charlie Creed-Miles. They play two brothers in 1970s Canada, one
> brother is gay (Cumming) and one is straight (Creed-Miles).
>
> Just before the film started, a door opened at the front of the screening room
> and in walked a few men. One, I later realised, was the film's director Michael
> Clowater, and with him were two men - one was Charlie Creed-Miles (!!) and
> walking in with him was
> another Press Gang actor, Jake Wood (!!).
>
> Jake Wood is not in the film, but I assume he was there to watch the film as a
> friend of Charlie Creed-Miles.
>
> Jake Wood is an actor who appears in two episodes of Press Gang, as different
> characters. He is very famous in the UK, for his role in the TV soap
> EASTENDERS.
>
> The director and Charlie gave a short introduction to the film, and then they
> took seats
> in the cinema to watch it with us.
>
> I assume that Jake and Charlie sat together.
>
> I shared the film trailer here recently and was fully expecting a really good
> film, but I was not prepared for how amazing the film was. It was so powerful
> and very moving in places.
>
> Alan Cumming was superb, as always. However, it was Charlie Creed-Miles, who
> gives a really wonderful, subtle and ultimately deeply moving portrayal of
> brotherly love. He was so brilliant. I totally believed he was a Canadian man
> from a small town in 1970.
>
> The film got a great reception and I enjoyed the Q+A afterwards with the
> director and Charlie.
>
> The film has been released in Canada, but doesn't yet have a US or UK release
> date listed on imdb.com
>
> I do hope it will be released, as I am positive that many of us here would
> enjoy it.
>
> https://youtu.be/nyykHpEmLec?si=kbiuUbgJk_pmX2Ow
>
> Vince Deehan
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