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‘Big Boys’ Creator Jack Rooke on What’s Next After Hit Brit Sitcom and Why He’ll Likely Move to L.A.: ‘My Tone as a Writer Is More Popular Here’
'Big Boys' creator Jack Rooke says he's working on a Netflix pilot and, inspired by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, wants to write his own 'Killing Eve.'
Best known for the BAFTA-winning “ Big Boys ” — his acclaimed semi-autobiographical sitcom that straddles both out-and-out hilarity and serious matters such a grief, loss, sexuality and mental health — the British comedian and writer has been visiting L.A. and doing the standard tour of networks and production companies that most creatives make when they hit a certain level of success. Following the unlikely yet uplifting friendship of recently out and (very) sexually inexperienced freshman Jack (Dylan Llewellyn) and horny, straight, mature student Danny (Jon Pointing), “Big Boys” is awash in gags, jokes and one-line zingers. He’s also visiting at the behest of his UTA agent Larry Salz (who was recommended to Rooke by Waller-Bridge), and he’s already notched up some U.S. celebrity fans — most notably “SNL” legend Vanessa Bayer, who he says has been “a huge influence in helping spread the word.”
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