Meantime (film)
Meantime is a 1983 film directed by Mike Leigh, produced by Central Television for Channel 4. It was shown at the London Film Festival in 1983 and on Channela few weeks later, onDecember. According to the critic Michael Coveney The sapping, debilitating and demeaning state of unemployment, the futile sense of waste, has not been more poignantly, or poetically, expressed in any other film of the period.
One day at the rehearsal space, a factory in Homerton, Roth and Oldman were throwing a milk bottle around. Suddenly Roth threw it up and it hit a fluorescent lighting strip. Leigh saw ...Garys shaven head erupt into a thousand red blotches in the film you can see the stitch marks. He rushed Oldman to hospital. As I drove him there, all done up in his skinhead stuff, covered in blood, Gary said to me, For fucks sake, tell em Im an actor He could easily have lost his eyesight in the accident, and I do not know to this day what I would have done if that had happened.
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