{"id":274589,"date":"2025-11-21T01:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274589\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:34:07","slug":"michael-caton-jones-working-class-roots-prepared-me-for-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274589\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Caton-Jones: Working class roots prepared me for Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caton-Jones&#8217;s most recent film in Scotland was Our Ladies, based on the Alan Warner novel The Sopranos about a school choir on a day trip from Oban and although he still has plenty of ideas, the industry has changed since he first arrived there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the moment, I&#8217;m in what&#8217;s called development hell,&#8221; he says. &#8220;So I have many projects that I&#8217;m trying to push forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a period of flux for the film business. I made films in the studio system, and that&#8217;s kind of gone now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For now, the film he&#8217;s most interested in is the one they&#8217;re making about his own story, which will hopefully be released next year, alongside an exhibition devoted to his story at the Broxburn Strathbrock Partnership. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And while he&#8217;s still a little sheepish about the attention being lavished on him, he&#8217;s coming round to the idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am part of the history of this place,&#8221; he says. &#8220;And if I can encourage some kid sitting in a council house who thinks their life is not going to amount to much, I am absolute proof positive that you can.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caton-Jones&#8217;s most recent film in Scotland was Our Ladies, based on the Alan Warner novel The Sopranos about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-274589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}