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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Fergal Kinney

‘The worst film ever made’: how Sex Lives of the Potato Men broke British cinema

Mackenzie Crook (left) and Johnny Vegas in Sex Lives of the Potato Men.
‘The same reason that Fleabag did disproportionately well would be the same reason that Sex Lives of the Potato Men did badly’ … Stewart Lee defends Sex Lives of the Potato Men. Photograph: PR

Actor Dominic Coleman was about to board a flight back from Australia when he received a text from Mark Gatiss about a film they had starred in together. It was a quote from the Sunday Times: “Is this the worst British film ever made?”

By the time Coleman was changing planes in Hong Kong, disgust at the film had spread to the front pages of the British newspapers on sale at the airport. It was, he remembers, “like the end of the world. It felt like people were pointing at me on the plane: that’s the guy, it’s him. It was a really difficult time and it really freaked me out.”

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