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Age: 26
Occupation: Operator at a call centre.
Status: Has a wife, Louise.
Can: Find his way to the choicer parts of the internet.
Interests: Football, drink, drugs, pornography.
Requirements: Whatever Jason's having.
Jamie is a call operator, a job he
despises. His lack of self belief taints his relationship
with his partner Louise as, suffering from impotence, he becomes
increasingly sexually dysfunctional. Louise is supportive
and loving, but the more she tries to get close to him, the
more she's pushed away.
Jamie is the character who seems to
lose his way most in this drama. Martin explains: "At the
very base of it all, the knows about decency and he knows
he's fucked up very badly. Since the rape of Alice he's had
to subjugate that and convince himself it was just a drunken
thing that got out of hand, but in the pit of his soul he
absolutely knows what he has done."
Martin rejects the suggestion that
Jamie is merely a sad guy: "He's a lot more intelligent than
he allows himself to be. He's unfulfilled in life in terms
of where he could be by the time he is thirty and he knows
it."
One of the srongest threads of the
piece is Jamie's desire to be like Jason: "He (Jason) seems
to be in a position where he calls the shots in his life.
Jamie feels totally disempowered and is not in an influencial
position at work or at home and that wild lifestyle is really
attractive to him."
At the end with the video it would
seem that Jamie has his moment of power, which the others
see as vindictive. Martin concurs: "There comes a time when
he thinks, Jason you always come out smelling of roses and
maybe this time you're not going to. I've had to atone for
this and I'm going through hell, and if I'm going to go down
I'm going to bring down everyone else."
Martin Freeman's television credits
include Lock Stock, This Life and Casualty.
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