Alice Lowe
Alice Lowe
Alice Eva Lowe is an English actress and writer, mainly in comedy. She is known for her roles in the Garth Marenghi series and as the lead and co-writer of the 2012 film Sightseers...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth3 April 1977
thinking laughing stuff
I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.
believe thinking ideas
If you can make someone believe that you believe in the idea then I think that's worth a lot.
jobs passion thinking
I think 99% of the whole thing is to have passion about the idea yourself. I think part of your job as a filmmaker is to tell someone that might not think it's going to work that, actually, it will work.
thinking easy discouraged
I think it's very easy to get discouraged early on.
character comedy
'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.
dark ideas television
We developed 'Sightseers' as a TV idea but didn't get anywhere with it because all the channels said it was too dark originally as an idea for television.
children games play
We actually did go on a camping trip together as part of the research, in a caravan, for a week. I guess we picked who annoyed us most from genuine experience. We did a lot of research on camping and what annoys people. It's quite often children playing ball games. It's a huge debate in the caravan world whether children should be allowed to play ball games or not.
thinking london comedy
I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.
careers childhood london
Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.
reputation certain being-cool
Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.
growing-up growing feels
Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.
kids fossils would-be
When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.
holiday journey wife
The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the trials they go through. We wanted people to identify with the experience of going on holiday and having a quarrel with your wife, boyfriend, whatever. We knew if we didn't crack that it would not be watchable as a film.
london film ends
So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again.