As the sequel to the Cornish fishing film is released, its star discusses his 30-year mission to avoid fame, being caught up in a racism row and dealing with bullies – himself included
, the 2019 hit about real-life Cornish lobster fishers whose sea shanties won them a recording contract.
His latest film is a sequel to Fisherman’s Friends. “You saw it, right? You probably hated it, but anyway …” Woah there: why would he assume I hated Fisherman’s Friends: One and All? “No, no, I shouldn’t judge,” he says, apologetically, rubbing his salt-and-pepper beard, which is several days past stubble. “But you watch incredibly complex, interesting, textured stuff, so this must have seemed rather …Perhaps that is to be expected.
Then there was the stage production early in his career during which he overheard a well-known actor viciously berating a female co-star, telling her exactly what he was going to do to her if she dared to upstage him that night by getting a laugh: “I pulled him against the wall and told him: ‘If you do anything, I will be right behind you on stage and I will deck you. I will take you out in front of that audience.
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