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Hackney born and bred and the star of Kidulthood and Adulthood, Adam Deacon, is set to release his first film as a director: ‘Anuvahood’ tomorrow.
Adam grew up on the King's Place estate, was a pupil at Stoke Newington school, and was, in his own words, a “joker”. If he didn’t do too well at the academia, it was partly because of his rocky home life. His dad left the family when he was two, leaving him and his mum to fend for themselves: "You hear about broken families but because I never really knew my dad, I never missed him," he says. "Even though there wasn't much money and things were hard for my mum, things seemed happy.
Age 15, Adam left home and lived on a friend's couch for a year, and at 16 he quit school and moved into a hostel.
"It was quite a shock, learning to cook and wash my clothes and stuff I'd never done before, and it was quite rowdy: there'd be fights and arguments going on while I was trying to learn scripts."
Adam picked up parts in EastEnders, The Bill and in the feature “Face”, but only bits and pieces. Rather than give it all up, Adam decided to write and direct his own star vehicle with his Vietnamese childhood friend Michael Vu, now a youth worker at Stokey. They wrote the script for Anuvahood in four months and after they got the £500,000 budget they needed to make the film they shot the whole script in three and a half weeks.
Behind the scenes footage from Grime Daily
Read an interview with Adam Deacon http://www.flicksandbits.com/2011/03/17/adam-deacon-interview-for-his-film-anuvahood/8961/
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