Inbetweeners' James Buckley to play teenage Del Boy
The cast for the workingly-titledÌýSex, Drugs & Rock'n'Chips has been announced - and it's a very exciting mix. Telling the Only Fools and Horses backstory will be Inbetweeners star as a teenage Del Boy, while Nicholas Lyndhurst will return to Peckham, this time as Freddie 'The Frog' RobdalÌý - an 'art connoisseur' with more than a passing resemblance to the future Rodney Trotter.
"Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Chips hurtles us into the rough and unglamorous world of London in 1960 to discover the circumstances that led to Del and Rodney Trotter turning out the way they did," said writer John Sullivan.
Centering on the relationships between Joan, Reg, safe-cracker Freddie and teenage Del, it picks up the Trotter story in 1960, as Joan Trotter (Peckham's answer to Brigitte Bardot) is not-so-happily married to bone-idle Reg and mother to a teenage son, Derek. But the reappearance of Freddie Robdal, fresh from a ten year stay as a guest of Her Majesty, is set to ruffle some feathers in the Trotter household...
Other cast announced include Kellie Bright and Shaun Dingwall as Trotter parents Joan and Reg, Phil Daniels as Del's granddad, and Robert Dawes as Joan's sleazy boss.
We haven't yet learned who will be playing the teenage Boycie, Trigger, Denzil and Roy Slater - but we do know they'll be in it.
Shooting begins this Monday, and we'll try to get on set to snap some behind-the-scenes photos for the blog, so stay tuned.
UPDATED: here they are!
Comment number 1.
At 5th Oct 2009, Green Soap wrote:Only Fools jumped the shark long before the end, so no need for a spin off.
Oh, for a ´óÏó´«Ã½ with originality.
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