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
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.
intelligent people elements
We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.
couple struggle thinking
I think in most couples or partnerships, there's a constant struggle for power and dominance.
funny might people
If you're funny as a woman, people think it might be because someone else helped you.
came interested nobody offend school
I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.
character comedy
'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.
car hold jobs room sit
I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.
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.
believe thinking ideas
If you can make someone believe that you believe in the idea then I think that's worth a lot.