It’s finally here! Chris Lilley’s highly anticipated television series Angry Boys made its world premiere television debut last Wednesday night on ABC TV Australia (with HBO and BBC to follow shortly). With Angry Boys, Lilley and his long-time producer, Laura Waters, resolved to take more chances. “There has to be some challenge with each series,” Waters says. “We need to feel like it’s impossible, or it’s not fun. We talked about taking everything to the next level.”
Writer/performer Chris Lilley is the chameleon of character invention and in Angry Boys he brings to life six vastly different characters – identical twins Daniel and Nathan Sims, who appeared in We Can Be Heroes, are back. Joining the boys in the series are four new characters; former surfing world champion Blake Oakfield, a family man and founding member of a surfie gang – the Mucca Mad Boys; S.mouse a U.S. rapper famous for having produced the biggest selling hip-hop single of all time; Japanese mother Jen Okazaki, a shrewd businesswoman, she also manages her son’s skateboarding career; and Juvenile Justice Centre for Boys officer Ruth Sims, aka Gran. Prepare to be entertained!
