Dev Patel recalls “insane” ‘Skins’ parties where teens were “drugged off their faces”

nme.com:

Skins parties where teens were “drugged off their faces”.Speaking exclusively to NME about his new film Monkey Man, in which he stars and makes his directorial debut, the actor reminisced about his time on the British teen series and some of the more memorable shoots.After being shown a picture of himself at a party scene with fellow cast members, Patel said: “I’m wearing a corset with the Rocawear belt, and basically my arse is hanging out.

That was a crazy day.“They did these commercials where they’d rent out these mansions of whatever and then just a bunch of kids, our age and older, would come and half of them were drugged off their faces, and [the crew] are like, ‘just… have fun.’ It was insane.

It was really, really insane.”He continued: “I remember one of the best days of shooting they played Shy FX ‘Original Nutter’ and they had this club scene and everyone was just going mental.

I remember that because they played like 60 times and I was like a Kenyan dude in the Maasai Mara jumping up and down.”Asked if his time on Skins raised his awareness of other bands and music, Patel replied: “I think filmmaking is just a very musical process.