First Look Picture: Julia Donaldson’s ‘The Smeds and The Smoos’

The primary picture has been launched of Invoice Bailey and Adjoa Andoh’s characters in upcoming BBC brief movie “The Smeds and The Smoos.”

Primarily based on Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture-book of the identical identify, it tells the story of two warring households whose youngsters, Invoice and Janet, fall in love and run away collectively.

Hotly pursued by their grandparents, Grandfather Smed (Bailey) and Grandmother Smoo (Andoh), the 2 younger aliens lead their households on a chase throughout house, giving them the chance to seek out out they’ve extra in frequent than they assume.

Rounding out the forged are Ashna Rabheru as Janet, Daniel Ezra as Invoice, Rob Brydon as Uncle Smoo, Meera Syal as Aunt Smed and Sally Hawkins because the narrator.

The movie, produced by Magic Mild Footage, can be launched on BBC One and iPlayer this Christmas.

“There’s simply the form of ignorant prejudice that folks can harbor about one another till they arrive collectively and truly love and that survival and kinship are the issues that bind all of us,” mentioned Andoh of the best-selling e book. “Grandma Smoo [is] completely succesful, she will drive a rocket, she will clump concerning the place, she will blow her trumpet, enjoyment of her children and her grandkids and she will hate with a ardour as properly. Grandma Smoo’s not a lady of gentle tastes, every little thing’s pretty robust along with her. So when she’s your implacable enemy, she’s implacably your enemy. However you might change her thoughts at any second after which she’s going to love you to demise.”

Bailey added: “I believe the principle themes of the movie are that we must always simply settle for variations in others. I believe the factor I get from it’s that the older technology are usually extra resistant to vary. And truly, generally it takes the youthful technology to form of breach that divide. Grandpa Smed, he’s the form of patriarch of the Smed household, and he’s very a lot the form of protector of the household, and he’s in cost. And he’s fairly form of conventional, and a bit caught in his methods. And he’s form of slightly little bit of a stick within the mud, actually, however he’s form. He’s not an ogre. He’s a kindly outdated grandpa who cares about his household, I believe that’s one of the simplest ways to explain him.”