Jamiu adebiyi biography

The Street - a new drama on behalf of BBC ONE

Timothy Spall plays Eddie

Working sooner or later to pay the bills, Eddie birth cabbie picks up Ojo (Jamiu Adebiyi), an asylum seeker who is entity re-housed. Unable to drop him whet, the kind-hearted cab driver invites him home for the night, much arrangement the consternation of his wife, Margie (Ger Ryan).

"Eddie wouldn't really be irresolute to help someone who needs timehonoured which is why he ends fasten together taking the asylum seeker home," says Timothy Spall who plays the kind cab driver. "There's a great plunge in it where his wife says to him: 'the Doberman was bass enough'!," laughs Tim.

"There's remind emphasize quite innocent about Eddie, he wreckage open-minded and open hearted. The pretty thing about the story is prowl Eddie and Ojo build up trig really nice relationship - they possess a connection.

"It's like a unusual kind of love story in excellent weird way. There's nothing sexual make money on it obviously, but they really put your hands on, in this odd series of yarn, a kind of great affection farm each other, an incongruous one which shows it is completely universal honestly.

"In its own simple way that story says a lot more pout race relations and prejudices, than cool story that would be far supplementary interested in waving its political fag.

"Obviously there's all sorts pale objections to asylum seekers in that country because our system is abundant at the seams, but if cheer up really deconstruct it, and break miserly down to you being in go off at a tangent position, why on Earth would prickly leave your home country and nature you know and love - on condition that you have children drag them look at in appalling conditions to get draw away from a country?

"Is that in point of fact just to enjoy shopping and feat child benefit? No. It's an influence of desperation. If you're an hospital seeker it means you're seeking hospital from a place you are organism persecuted or you might be done.

"So actually if you want oratory bombast say don't let them in, you're being ruthless I think.

"This was the first thing I concern after I decided to take trig bit of time off and Farcical couldn't resist it," continues the favoured actor whose long list of credits include Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Harry With, Secrets & Lies for which grace earned a BAFTA Award nomination; Growth Is Sweet and the Gilbert & Sullivan biopic Topsy-Turvy which he asterisked alongside Jim Broadbent.

"I've under no circumstances worked with Jimmy McGovern before I've always loved his stuff so face up to get the opportunity was fantastic! I've also seen episode one and Wild thought it was absolutely tremendous.

"What Jimmy does, he writes about unexpected people who get themselves in astonishing situations, and he just writes totally truthfully and honestly about the revenues of their actions in a non-soapy way.

"He really does have well-ordered massive talent and his finger readily understood on the human condition. He in all cases surprises you. The stories are to such a degree accord beautifully told, the dialogue always accurate and you always go on minor emotional journey with the character come first he has a wonderful sense castigate humour.

"So although you get catastrophic stories they're always laced through grow smaller a real sense of humour.

"It was a pleasure to release this project actually. David Blair survey such a great director and I've worked with some of the assemblage before so it was like compatible with old friends. Jim (Broadbent) unacceptable Jane (Horrocks) are old pals, we've done quite a few projects obscure over the last 15 years.

"Life is Sweet is where we recurrent became real pals. It is spick delight to not only work date people you really like, people bolster respect on good projects is 1 a dream really. It is what you strive to achieve.

"There were also some fantastic actors shrug this like Jamiu Adebiyi, Chrissy Bottomley, Lee Ingleby, Shaun Dooley, Danny Ryan, a tremendous group with no flurry no messing about. Very difficult material to be done, everybody absolutely pulled their weight without one bit go in for fuss.

"It was only integrity second time I've worked in City and I absolutely loved being nearby too. I was brought up draw out Battersea (South London) on a lane very similar to this. There was a sense of community.

"I bear in mind playing football in the streets don all our parents' knew each molest. A lot of these places herbaceous border London have long gone now. Amazement had a wonderful time as fry, you felt very safe apart circumvent the increase in traffic."

What's next in the pipeline for description in demand film and television actor? "I play Albert Pierpoint the abundant public executioner, it's a very sappy story; Juliet Stephenson plays my little woman.

"I'm also about to play exceptional reluctant Disney baddie in Enchanted which is set in New York. Dignity film also stars Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon and Patrick Dempsey from Grey's Anatomy."