Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Mat Whitecross

Director Mat Whitecross began his film career as a runner and production assistant, working his way up to editor with Michael Winterbottom on the 2004 9 Songs and a co-director credit with Winterbottom on the 2006 The Road to Guantanamo. TV work on series such as Nearly Famous and Spooks followed, before a further teaming with Winterbottom on 2009's The Shock Doctrine and a solo directing credit on the documentary Moving to Mars (also 2009). Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is his first solo directing credit on a dramatic feature.

Andy Serkis

London-born actor Andy Serkis began his career on the stage, making his television debut in the late 1980s with supporting roles in series such as The New Statesman, The Darling Buds of May and The Bill. In the 1990s he continued to work in TV in the likes of Touching Evil, Kavanagh QC, The Jump and Oliver Twist (as Bill Sykes), expanding into roles in feature films such as Stella Does Tricks (1996), and Mike Leigh's Career Girls (1997) and Topsy-Turvy. His big break came 2001 when he landed the role of Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King, which brought him widespread attention and a number of prestigious awards. He has continued his TV work with roles in series as diverse as The Simpsons and Little Dorrit, and had a scene stealing turn as murderer Ian Brady in the 2006 Longford. He recently played William Hare in the upcoming story of graverobbers Burke and Hare for John Landis and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.

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