Aimee Lou Wood had one coping mechanism when the world locked down in 2020: to watch as many films as physically possible, so she could experience something bigger than the confines of her small flat. As weeks turned into months, the White Lotus and Sex Education star hunkered down and inhaled classics from Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz to Ridley Scott’s Alien. Soon, she landed on the idea for Film Club, a six-part BBC romcom about an agoraphobic twentysomething called Evie (Wood), who hosts elaborate fancy-dress movie nights in her mum’s garage. Evie’s ulterior motive? To spend time with the boy she has feelings for, but is scared to confess her love to.
“TV during that time was the only way you could access the world,” Wood said of the long isolation period, while speaking at the series’ launch last month. “We needed plot. We needed to be taken away. We needed escape.”
