He has made smash hit shows for Netflix and has adapted Harry Potter for the stage. Yet the in-demand writer\u2019s latest show Falling is new territory for him \u2013 a love story<\/p>\n
I hear Jack Thorne before I\u00a0see\u00a0him. We\u2019re meeting in a quiet cafe in Hampstead, north London, to discuss his very first love story for TV, Falling. I catch snatches of him chatting with various waiters \u2013 \u201cThank you, good sir\u201d and \u201cLovely, lovely\u201d \u2013 before he appears in front of me, all smiles but a little nervous, too.\u00a0Which is surprising given this is the writer who had a hand in hits such as Skins, Shameless and\u00a0the This Is England trilogy, co-created a cluster of brilliant adaptations (His Dark Materials, Lord of the Flies, Enola Holmes) and is steadily building\u00a0up a vast canon of work inspired by disturbing but fascinating real-life stories (National Treasure, Toxic Town, The Hack). Most notably, he also co-created the Netflix series Adolescence, winner of endless awards, including and viewed by 140 million people and counting.<\/p>\n
The ridiculous thing is that Thorne\u2019s theatre career is as illustrious as his TV work. There\u2019s the small matter of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on stage (an experience that Thorne found rewarding but, with all eyes on him, \u201cnot always a lot of fun\u201d); plus his takes on A Christmas Carol and the chilling Let the Right One In. He drew on his family\u2019s own experiences with IVF for the screenplay to the movie Joy, and is currently co-writing Sam Mendes\u2019s highly publicised but super-secret four-film series about\u00a0the Beatles (\u201cI\u2019m not allowed to talk about that\u201d).<\/p>\n
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