An exploration of pleasure and shame, and a portrait of sex work as one of the caring professions. You might be forgiven for assuming that this is a sort of Home Counties riposte to Last Tango in Paris-more of a “first two-step in Norwich”-but, in fact, it’s an adventure in several kinds of intimacy. Over the course of 19 days in February 2021, Daryl McCormack, now 29, and I, 63, filmed four meetings in a Norfolk so Covid-secure it felt like ours and ours alone. At the end of the first reading, I wrote to Katy to say that we absolutely had to do it. It perhaps goes without saying that it was a very unexpected script to receive. This is the story of the film Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, which was written by Katy Brand and sent to me with an “Is this anything that might intrigue you?” kind of message. A 62-year-old retired religious education teacher (Nancy), who has never had an orgasm, hires a 28-year-old male sex worker (Leo) to help expand her horizons.
