Looking ahead to this weekend, when the BAFTA awards will take place- although the pair are not attending the ceremony, they have been dazzled by the news that it has been recognised on a larger scale and are hoping for the best. Mari said: "I think it just shows how much people need comedy right now." This is a fun and quirky movie. It has a slow start and a lot of kids will think it's boring at first. But once the Charles character is introduced it becomes a lot of fun. There are some bullies and it can be scary and frustrating as they do their bullying, but they are sorted out hilariously. Nominated in the “Outstanding British Film” category at the prestigious BAFTA's Awards this weekend, it will be in the running alongside the likes of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical and Living. The plot is centred around the themes of happiness, loneliness and good fun as the life of an inventor who lives a solitary existence in north Wales is turned upside down.He decides to build a robot for some companionship, and showcases both twins - Lowri as Katrina and Mari as Suki - who are the daughters of the antagonist. The pair are now also in development with Sky regarding a story based on their own lives in Bridgend growing up in a working class environment with hidden disabilities. Families can talk about Brian. What did you learn from him? Do you consider him a role model? Why, or why not? I think it's about finding equity in roles rather than preaching equality. It's about the crossover of the whole industry rather than pigeonholing people. For instance, making it possible for disabled people to apply for able-bodied roles."

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A lot of people thought Steve Coogan or Chris Morris were behind it. I thought: “I’ll take that!” As soon as people found out it was me, it felt like the joke was finished.

Brian is a quietly courageous man who stands up to bullies and thieves. His positive outlook on life is infectious. As he says, when one door closes, another always opens. He's also a very understated genius, capable of building anything but not concerned about showing it off to the world. Perhaps it's because everything in her film, no matter how heightened, is rooted in a real place, whether it's the feelings of the characters or even the music - it does, indeed, feel as its initial intertitle suggests like a “land not so far away”.

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There’s a sweet romance between Brian and an equally shy local woman, played by Louise Brealey . Are you a soppy romantic at heart?

Charles turns into a robotic moody teenager at one point. As a father of three, was that based on your own parenting experiences? I think so. The film that’s made me cry the most is The Bridges of Madison County. I absolutely adore that film and always return to it as a reference point. It isn’t easy to develop a sketch-length idea into a feature film and not easy to pivot from ironic comedy into dark Straw Dogs-style menace, and then into a sweet-natured happy ending. But Earl, Hayward and Archer have managed it. It’s the bromance of the year. One of the best films of 2020, Host was a low-budget found-footage horror movie which put a demonic twist on all of our pandemic-related fears. The follow-up from the same director, Rob Savage, and his co-writers, Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd, sinks its teeth into the same vein. Shot on an iPhone, the film purports to be drawn from a livestream by a Los Angeles-based musician (Annie Hardy). An outspoken Covid-denier and anti-masker, she flies to London to escape US restrictions and ends up giving an old woman (Angela Enahoro) a lift through the countryside in a friend's car. But the woman is not quite as harmless as she first appears. "Savage, Hurley, and Shepherd have once again proven a canny ability to tap into the darkest corners of the zeitgeist while producing genuinely entertaining and chilling horror," says Jude Dry at IndieWire. "Equal parts confounding, challenging, and insanely fun, Dashcam is horror at its most inventive."

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Lowri has been busy over recent months, as is also set to feature in a film which is coming out on March 10, when 'Y Sŵn' will start being shown in cinemas. She said: "It's a kind of celebration of the 40 year anniversary of S4C which is really exciting and it had a great team of people working on it." Happiness, loneliness and silliness come together in this startling emotional adventure developed by writer-performers David Earl and Chris Hayward from their 2017 short film of the same name, and directed by Jim Archer. The film is partly about an AI robot called Charles. But thankfully, unlike a lot of serious sci-fi, this film doesn’t demand that we wonder whether or not AI robots are capable of independent thought or if you can fall in love with them, etc, etc. Charles, a free-thinking robot, is burdened with many things, but an ontological crisis isn’t one of them. Mari, who now lives in London added: "I definitely had glimmers of moments where I didn't think it was possible to become an actress but I've always been quite headstrong with what I wanted to do with my life. It's not like I necessarily knew how I was going to achieve it but I knew I definitely wanted to be in the arts... I'm not from an artsy family and my parents work very normal jobs so it's not like I had the map to do it, but I definitely wanted to pursue something." Watching and rewatching Fawlty Towers as a kid. The person who made me want to get on stage was Harry Hill. When I saw his Man Alive tour aged 21, it’s the most I’ve laughed at anything. I thought if I could make one person laugh the way I did that night, that’d be perfect. I’ve yet to do that, obviously.The film focuses in on a person who bullies people in his neighborhood. What's the best way to handle this type of situation? How does Brian demonstrate courage, perseverance, and humility? Why are those important character strengths? The pair spoke at a BAFTA-organised Q&A event at Bridgend's Odeon venue about the film's success on Sunday, February 12, and realised the reality had still not quite hit home yet for their parents. It seems that they are still getting used to their daughters' chosen career paths according to Lowri. I had a couple, as it goes. It’s not something I’ve spoken about before. They were funny little characters. I remember going out to my nan’s garden and having a chat with them. When we were initially writing the film, we didn’t quite know what Charles would be. Is he an alien who’s crash-landed from a planet full of Charleses? Do we reveal at the end that it’s just Brian dragging around a washing machine and it’s all been in his mind? But that would be annoying and the audience would feel cheated.

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It’s about this gang of clowns who find themselves in a strange situation. We filmed it this spring in Ireland. It’s kind of a road movie, heading towards this ridiculous climax. I’m wearing a red nose for most of it, so I’m in disguise again. Brian is a creative man who loves to build things. Is that a passion you share? Is there anything you'd love to try to invent? It can't be long before someone releases a biopic of George Michael, the Wham-frontman-turned-solo-megastar. But in the meantime, this documentary covers his rise to fame, his evolution from pop pin-up to Grammy-winning musician, his achievements as a gay-rights activist and altruist, and his arrests for drug offences and public lewdness. The film has been billed as "deeply autobiographical", as Michael himself was working on it with co-director David Austin before he died in 2016 at the age of 53. But it includes tributes from his many famous fans, including Liam Gallagher, who calls him a "modern-day Elvis" and Tony Bennett, who says that Michael "raised the bar to a whole new level". Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close This has marked an important moment for them, as they have both experienced different barriers having grown up with the same heart condition, as well as being neuro-divergent. Their idea was chosen to be part of their Sky comedy shorts for which they are still in the scriptwriting phase. As well as this, the twins have also just been commissioned by BBC Radio Wales to write their own radio pilot.

Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close What's On Welsh identical twins breaking into the film industry with roles in a BAFTA-nominated indie film Interviews from 2004 with De Palma, actors Bill Finley and Charles Durning, editor Paul Hirsch, and producer Edward R. Pressman You wear a balaclava in the film and are often heavily disguised for screen roles. Does that mean you don’t get recognised much?