Dreams and Light | show | 1980 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

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00:00 Costello Jones!

00:01 We have an eviction notice.

00:02 Thing is, bubs, if you live an interesting life,

00:04 people are always gonna be chasing after you.

00:07 Should be illegal to ruin someone's life

00:09 before 9 a.m.

00:10 ♪ (MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

00:13 I really wanted to write something about family.

00:16 But I wanted to write about families

00:19 that are not connected by blood.

00:21 I ended up kind of writing about this weird group

00:24 of hustlers who sort of live on the outskirts of morality.

00:28 (HORN HONKS)

00:29 Do you think we can pull over?

00:30 I think she's going to be sick.

00:32 -Right, get ready to run. -I've got it, I've got it.

00:33 It's a twatty thing to do!

00:35 -Run! -Oi!

00:36 (LAUGHS)

00:38 Costello is an aspiring writer.

00:42 She's also a single mom.

00:43 She's gone from job to job.

00:46 As filthy as you like, it's all going in my arms.

00:49 (LAUGHS)

00:50 Trying to support her daughter.

00:51 You'll be all right.

00:53 How do you know?

00:54 She's like a lioness when it comes to Iris,

00:57 and is very protective.

00:59 Yet she fucks up, like all of us do as parents.

01:03 Would you be able to pick Iris up from school later?

01:05 You know I need to work.

01:07 Would you ever lie to me?

01:08 No, of course I would.

01:10 I love you.

01:12 (LAUGHS)

01:13 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

01:15 There's different ways to be a mother.

01:18 We often see that kind of sanitized view.

01:21 She's all very middle class, very clean, very secure.

01:25 And these characters are not very secure.

01:27 Suppose you need money.

01:28 Can you let me sell?

01:30 You mean give?

01:31 Florian Selby is Costello's best friend,

01:38 and he loves her so much that he hates her.

01:41 God, you are so drunk.

01:43 And you could do better than him.

01:45 I think you two have got a very toxic relationship.

01:47 Thank you very much.

01:48 What makes that relationship toxic

01:51 is also what brings them together,

01:54 because they are both so unbelievably damaged.

01:57 By the way, how are your family?

01:59 Still dead.

02:00 They're just still very much walking around, aren't they?

02:02 I've always felt he's got a kind of nothing to lose

02:05 feel about him.

02:06 Isn't it time you actually thought of doing something

02:08 useful with your life?

02:10 I love you.

02:12 When I read Iris, I liked her a lot.

02:14 She's quite the adult.

02:15 She's a bit of the parent between Costello and Selby.

02:18 I love you, but you're both crazy.

02:21 The families in this show are definitely

02:23 not straightforward families.

02:25 Auntie June is mum whore.

02:26 Your mum's definitely not a whore.

02:28 But no families are straightforward families.

02:31 As if we haven't suffered enough already.

02:33 Nail this!

02:34 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

02:35 ♪ (MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

02:38 What's so great is that the actors understood everything.

02:41 They knew who these characters were just from the dialogue.

02:44 Cash's scripts are incredibly specific

02:48 in references, in music choices.

02:50 Because it is those details that makes people go,

02:54 "My God, I know that character."

02:57 Everyone is dealing with their own ups,

03:01 downs, achievements, and failures.

03:04 Young lady, your Costello script.

03:07 I'm in so much trouble.

03:09 Real characters are much more interesting.

03:11 Life is much more interesting than people make out.

03:15 (LAUGHS)

03:16 They're all kind of searching for something.

03:17 They're searching for home and family.

03:20 Love. They find it with each other.

03:22 They can't find it with anyone else

03:23 because they're such outsiders.

03:25 And I think when a group of outsiders find each other...

03:28 it becomes something very beautiful.

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03:44 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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