Schumacher also praised Smith’s scouse accent – saying it was better than his own.<\/p>\n
“I was checking with Sheridan if mine was OK, because it’s just brilliant,” he said.<\/p>\n
Schumacher said he had not originally envisaged Socha, who was previously in This is England, as playing Matty, but on the first day of filming, he “totally nailed it”. <\/p>\n
“He blew it out of the water,” he added.<\/p>\n
He said Socha and Smith – from the very first read-through – had “magic” chemistry, for the “funny and dark” drama. <\/p>\n
Director Al Mackay also said the pair “sparked off each other”.<\/p>\n
While most of the filming was done in the Liverpool area, some scenes were filmed in Bolton and Tockholes in Darwen, Lancashire.<\/p>\n
The Royal Arms pub in Tockholes had the cast and crew using their facilities when filming took place nearby last year.<\/p>\n
Emma Ball, who has been running the pub for nearly three years, said it was lovely to host them.<\/p>\n
“It was lovely to have them in the pub. <\/p>\n
“We are only a tiny village – and are really excited to watch the Cage and see Tockholes on it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schumacher also praised Smith’s scouse accent – saying it was better than his own. “I was checking with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-551517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551517","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=551517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}