We’re missing out on so much working class talent – Stormzy’s new film proves it ...Middle East

Big Man is a feel-good story about a rapper who rediscovers his love of music after forging a bond with two young boys. It’s not a bad first foray into the business of film for Stormzy, and film feels like a natural arena for his company, Merky, to add to its already bulging portfolio.

Although Jaydon has appeared in the West End in Matilda and MJ The Musical and is insanely talented, this is Klevis’s first-ever acting role, and it shows. Without the gloss of acting school or drama classes, or the nepotism that children of famed actors insist has no impact on their careers, his pure, unfiltered talent literally lunges at you through the screen. Before he even mentioned to the assembled audience at the screening that it was his first role, you just knew.

I can well imagine the interaction that the producer watched in Westfield before approaching Klevis. He has a natural charm, magnetism and humour that you can watch from afar and chuckle away at. It’s storytelling through improvisation as taught and learned, in environments dominated by the melting pot of immigrant and working-class communities in our inner cities. Not learnt in drama schools, nor Cambridge Footlight rehearsals – just communities who have a history of keeping their stories alive through words and performance, thus learning how to hold the attention of an audience from a very early age.

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Scripts written about the working classes from a middle-class perspective have been the norm for many years. You switch on the telly and it shows. I haven’t seen a Klevis in a while.

I remember thinking even then that he had a talent that just leapt at you when you watched him on screen. He was, and still is, magnetic. Although he’s now getting recognition for his work, in my opinion, it is way overdue. It’s a similar story for many working-class actors who haven’t been afforded the same leg-up as others.

And the real shame is, the more they push the working classes out, the faster it accelerates the death of real creativity in an industry that so desperately needs it.

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