Inside Black Mirror

As usual, I was worried, because I hadn’t really written a love story before. From Be Right Back, I learnt that if you keep it simple and you’ve got good actors, people immediately root for them and naturally care about them. Still, I was really worried that people would think it was absurd how quickly Kelly and Yorkie fall for each other. But, of

For me the trick is to try to picture the finished film in my head, and describe what I’m seeing and hearing. It’s a bit like wishing a world into reality. What follows is an oddly magical process in which that imaginary world gradually becomes real, via a series of waypoints – the first design sketches, the first read-through, the first day of sho

Penn Jillette: Charlie did talk about the framing mechanism he wanted to do, and we talked about museums in Vegas, but whatever is great about Black Museum, that’s Charlie. I desperately wanted to play the lead character Rolo, even though it would have cost an extraordinary amount of money for me and Teller to cancel our Las Vegas shows during the

Not sure that’s going to be much comfort when I’m being chased across an irradiated landscape by an autonomous robot bum-on-legs with the Facebook logo etched on its perineum and a Make America Great Again hat perched up top, but you can’t have everything.

Actually, within the episode, it works when Jon Hamm says it to someone, because he’s Jon Hamm, but when Harry does it at the office party he’s a bit less successful. I think if you went up to somebody and said that horse story, they’d go “Have you been reading these pick-up artist websites? Fuck off.”

The only social media I’ve ever engaged in was Instagram. I was on that for about six months, and then realised I was becoming completely obsessed and addicted by it. Instagram was just a disgusting lie, really. I found I was judging myself based on the appearances of other people’s lives and constantly comparing myself to others. I would either be

And then about a year later, in the days when you still had limited numbers you could store in a phone, sometimes you’d have to delete things. So I was going through the list, and there was this guy’s name and number. I thought I should delete that, but suddenly I couldn’t. To do that would’ve felt disrespectful, callous and wrong. It was a memento

Liam’s not a nice person and doesn’t act with as much charity as a really good person, but he’s also been driven a bit mad by this piece of technology.

you can have the news as an fucking exposition delivery system. So it does allow you to do all kinds of shorthand things, but that was one story with a lot of spinning plates.