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Celia Imrie spoke to HeyUGuys at the Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint UK Premiere at Picturehouse Central, London, and the Thursday Murder Club star was typically spirited. She celebrates kicking off the festive season with a film rooted in Dickens, makes a defiant case for keeping real people on screen in the age of AI, and shares the philosophy that drives her: have good fun and play.
Interviews for Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint at the UK Premiere at Picturehouse Central, starring John Bradley, Celia Imrie, Richard E. Grant, Adjoa Andoh, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Sophia Di Martino, Jim Broadbent and Karl Pilkington, written by Chris Boyle-McQuarry and directed by Jack Spring.
Colin Hart and Abigail Shii ask the questions.
Plot: Aubrey Flint is a man forced to complete community service at a struggling retirement home with an uncertain future. With the home threatened by an unscrupulous property developer, Aubrey is drawn into an unlikely fight to save it, rallying the community by staging a gloriously chaotic production of A Christmas Carol. Along the way, his reluctant stint becomes something far more meaningful, and he rediscovers a little Christmas magic of his own.
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint will be released in UK cinemas on 6th November 2026.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Congratulations on the film
00:11 Joining this cast and the story’s difficult themes
00:31 Why Dickens endures
00:41 Eight years to reach the screen
00:51 From Thursday Murder Club to Aubrey Flint
01:02 AI and the beauty of a well-written story
01:33 The importance of play
01:50 Have good fun
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#MerryChristmasAubreyFlint #CeliaImrie #JackSpring #UKPremiere #HeyUGuys #ThursdayMurderClub #ChristmasFilm #Dickens #BritishComedy #RedCarpet #Interview
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