Adeel Akhtar on Four Lions, Sweet Tooth and imaginary coffee cups

The incredible Adeel Akhtar, who broke on to screens in Four Lions and can currently be seen in Netflix show Sweet Tooth, joins the podcast to tell us about the cinema experiences that have shaped his work. This year sees Adeel appear in three hugely hyped films: Clio Barnard's Ali & Ava, musical adaptation Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Will Sharpe's The Electrical Life of Louis Wain - with such an eclectic CV, we're thrilled to have him on the show.Welcome to This Is My Cinema, a podcast from the British Independent Film Awards. The show is called This Is My Cinema and it’s all about celebrating the very best talent in the British film scene and the cinema experiences that made them who they are today. Our hosts Michael Leader and Rhianna Dhillon will be talking to rising stars and legendary names from in front of and behind the camera, exploring their origins in filmmaking, their inspirations, their memories of the cinemas they grew up visiting and of course whether they take their popcorn salty, sweet - or wouldn’t dream of taking food to a film at all. On the 18th of February, the British Independent Film Awards will be broadcasting live on Facebook and YouTube, hosted by Tom Felton, with lots of special guest appearances too. In celebration of the awards, we’ll be releasing one podcast episode every day that week, so subscribe now to This Is My Cinema wherever you listen to your podcasts… you’ll want a front row seatThis is my cinema is a Little Dot Studios production for BIFAThe show is hosted by Rhianna Dhilllon and Michael LeaderIt’s produced by Jake Cunningham, Ellie Aitken and Harold McShielAnd we’re edited by Content is QueenPhoto credits for this episode and its marketing materials: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.