Actor Jodie Comer says she would "love to see more funding going into the arts" particularly in Liverpool and the northwest, as she speaks exclusively to Channel 4 News ahead of the release of the forthcoming film 'The End We Start From'. BAFTA-winning director of the film Mahalia Belo says "it is really empowering and inspiring" to see more women coming through and "making great movies". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 I think what is so beautiful about this film is how this woman is faced with this adversity.
00:07 You know, and like her internal world is so transformed by the birth of her son,
00:11 while simultaneously the world seems unrecognisable due to the climate crisis.
00:16 We wanted to really depict that in a truthful way, so for me it was like not being a mother myself,
00:22 it was like really getting to the bottom of like how you hold your body when you have a baby,
00:27 where you feel the pain, the stages of labour, what the breath is like, you know,
00:31 all those kinds of things to really make that feel as real as possible.
00:37 I sort of wanted it to feel like it felt like when I was giving birth, which was probably
00:42 the most vulnerable I've ever felt in my life and the most powerful I've ever felt, ever.
00:46 So I just wanted to kind of give, and the flood, and we used the flood as a means to kind of
00:51 really help that experience along, to tell that experience, so the surges of it,
00:56 and how wild it is, and how painful it is as well.
01:00 When I was going to theatre auditions I was met with a lot of resistance for the fact that I hadn't
01:04 been classically trained, and I would love to see more funding go into the arts, especially when I
01:09 think of, you know, like, so Liverpool and the North West, and incredibly creative cities, and
01:16 I would love to see more of that.
01:19 I feel really excited because this year especially there are loads of peers who are coming through,
01:26 who are women, or you know, and who are making great movies, and I feel, you know, it's empowering
01:33 and inspiring to see that. But yeah, I think there's maybe still more change that needs to happen.
01:40 I think more trust that needs to happen, if I'm honest. I've got a feeling that that would be
01:44 helpful. But yeah, it's a good time, and I think, I'm hoping that it's a kind of a surge that can
01:51 grow and won't recede.