Paul Eastwood stars in a film about Brexit and an end-of-pier show, but sadly died before it was finished.
Seaside Special ties together a quintessentially English end-of-the-pier show and the ongoing Brexit negotiations of 2019In 2019, German film director Jens Meurer spent several months in Cromer on the Norfolk coast, following people as they prepared for two seismic events - Brexit and the annual end of pier variety show.
"Paul was so excited to be part of the film," Corea says. "He loved anything a little niche, a little bit different, because he was a little bit different like that as well. "He was incredible. I used to be an entertainer so I could put myself in his shoes and imagine having all that stripped back and stopped - it would have been so hard. But he kept going - he didn't let it get him down.
"He was so kind hearted and not a lot of people saw that," she says. "But everyone at that funeral knew he had that side to him." "But when I watched it again at a screening at Cromer I really registered how great it is, what a lovely film it is.Corea says she has the film on a hard drive, along with some extra footage that Meurer gave to her from when she and Harry visited Paul in Cromer.
"I think over the 17 years we were there we built it up to this contemporary variety show, which keeps its traditional roots but also has 21st Century content," she says. "I think what made the film so real was that he caught moments that normally people wouldn't see - backstage moments, us rehearsing, it not always going to plan - me going 'argh we're not ready'."When you're trying to put a show on you see people when they're tired, at their worst, when they're grumpy, but then you also see when they're amazing and they're at their best and they're shining.
"A lot of people went their own ways because of lockdown and things changed and then they had to do other work," she says."How wonderful that there is this memory of Paul, and how there's this memory of the show as it was in 2019."Sophie and Polly Duniam's dream of touring Europe in a motorhome lives on
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