And speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a> ahead of its streaming debut on Friday 19th January, Tavares explained why the pair\u2019s skill sets were such a good fit, revealing that they \u201cleaned on\u201d each other throughout the process.<\/p>\n \u201cWe started developing this a long time ago,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd really, fundamentally we\u2019ve got complementary skills and we sort of knew what we were aiming at.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got different backgrounds and different approaches. So, then it\u2019s like, how can we lean on each other to create something that we\u2019ve never done before?<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s our debut, so how can we sort of lean on each other to just bring that to execute and to push beyond what any of us could do individually. And how do we serve the film best?\u201d<\/p> He added: \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t like, this is your bit and this is my bit. It was more like a sort of, \u2018OK, well, we both need to support each other here\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n The film had been a long time in the works, with the original germ of the idea originating back to a conversation between Tavares and Kaluuya while they were making the short film Jonah back in 2012.<\/p>\n \u201cHe pitched an idea and we had desires to move into longer format,\u201d Tavares explained. \u201cAnd then we started to write and we started with these workshops \u2013 initially it was these workshops in the barber shop up in Holloway Road.<\/p>\n \u201cI was keen to start working with more actors and Daniel was keen to write more. And we started really, from the sort of seed of this idea looking at this motorbike heist out the barbershop.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then that kind of started the conversations about London, and sort of the conditions in London, the idea that people doing these million pound heists are getting paid very little money and then how extreme the situation is to just afford basics.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n The film is set in an imagined near future version of the UK capital and stars Top Boy\u2019s Kane Robinson as Izi, a resident of an endangered social housing community known as The Kitchen, whose life changes when he comes across his recently orphaned son (Jedaiah Bannerman) for the first time.<\/p>\n It originally premiered as the closing film of the London Film Festival in October 2023 and was given a limited theatrical release from last Friday (12th January) before its imminent Netflix debut.<\/p> ![\"Daniel](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/GettyImages-1726767410-9486610.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413\" "\\"Daniel")
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