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I Swear filmmaker Kirk Jones has said he did not ask Robert Aramayo to audition for the lead role because he knew the actor was right for the part “very early on”. The biopic tells the story of campaigner John Davidson’s life growing up with Tourette syndrome in Scotland.

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00:00A lot of people are surprised when I say I never asked him to do a screen test, I never
00:04asked him
00:04to audition and that's quite unusual and the reason was I knew that if he auditioned it would
00:10be nothing more than an impersonation of John Davidson. Rob explained that he really needed
00:15two or three months to get under the skin of the part to understand you know everything he could
00:20possibly do about Tourette's and he did that and I trusted him and it was a bit nerve-wracking as
00:26we approached the shoot because I hadn't seen him rehearse or show me what he was going to do
00:33but it was incredible it was incredible and I'm very very grateful to him for doing it.
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