It helps that he’s hardly a Werner Herzog on set. But some extra money was found and precautions put in place so they could finish the shoot. Production was shut down 10 days early last March because of the pandemic, and he was uncertain whether he’d have to abandon ship completely. He is almost unnervingly zen, a mode he has perfected during his years on television and which helped him cope when the Pirates shoot went awry. Now 38, Yates is in a more muted pastel pink cardigan today, sipping mint tea. If you had some Versace shades, you would wear them in the club, even though you couldn’t see a flippin’ thing. I remember I used to take the tag off, wash my clothing, and then put the tag back on before I wore it out again. “People used to wear the tags still on their clothes to show that they were new. “What you wore was really important,” says Yates, who was 17 at the turn of the millennium. In UK garage clubs, the men were the peacocks in two-piece Moschino suits, heavy Avirex motorcycle jackets and Gucci loafers. The young cast were particularly flabbergasted at the loud fashions back then, considering the uniform of choice today tends towards black trackies. Gen-Xers may remember such scenarios with misty eyes, millennials may snort at Two Tonne’s sincere come-on, “I’m wearing Lynx Africa”, with a cringe of familiarity, while Gen-Zers will no doubt find it hilarious that teenagers used to entertain themselves by playing Snake on their Nokia 3210s. There was no paying via your smartphone.” “It’s pre-internet,” says Yates, “so there’s a certain energy that only comes from people power.” He wanted to emphasise “the importance of the record shop, of where you got your ticket from and how you got it. The film’s paciness evokes an unguarded bombast and earnest eagerness – a little bit like The Inbetweeners by way of Human Traffic – that feels all but forgotten now. They broadcast their DJ sets from their bedrooms and drive a banana-yellow Peugeot 205 – a “clubhouse on wheels!” laughs Yates – with garage’s biggest hits blasting from the stereo. It is in this not-too-distant London that former schoolmates Cappo (Elliot Edusah), Two Tonne (Jordan Peters) and Kidda (Reda Elazouar) have ambitions of making it as a garage crew. Pirates corrects that, down to the decade-specific slang (“These are Twisted Levi’s, you chief!”) and designer shops (notably Proibito, which once stood in Soho). ‘Directing teaches you to find your inner calm’.
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