How Not to Cut: Inside One-Shot Films from Boiling Point to Adolescence with Angus 'Hendo' Henderson
In this episode of My Crazy Uncle Dave’s Podcast, host David Brown reconnects with filmmaker Angus 'Hendo' Henderson to explore the creative chaos behind real-time, one-shot filmmaking.
They unpack the story behind Boiling Point — the BAFTA-nominated indie hit starring Stephen Graham — and the leap to Adolescence, the new Netflix mini-series that’s breaking both records and hearts.
Directed by Philip Barantini and co-created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, Adolescence follows 13-year-old Jamie Miller (played by Owen Cooper), who is arrested for the murder of a girl at his school. Each of the four episodes was shot in one continuous take. It premiered on Netflix in March 2025 and became the first streaming show to top the BARB UK television ratings.
🔎 Highlights include:
- The making of Boiling Point, filmed in one real-time take inside a working kitchen
- How Adolescence took that same intense approach and applied it to a school-based crime drama
- The influence of Band of Brothers on ensemble filmmaking and emotional realism — and why shows like it still resonate today
- Working with actors like Stephen Graham, Jason Flemyng, and Vinette Robinson who thrive under one-take pressure
- Tech talk: using the Sony Venice camera, wireless rigs, and how a single jammed prop can ruin everything
- Why fake one-take films like 1917 and Birdman feel different from the real deal
- Streaming habits, foreign-language gems, and Angus’s go-to recommendations (Train to Busan, Black Crab, Ferry)
- Candid reflections on missed BAFTA nods, indie budgets, and filming in zero-degree kitchens
🎥 Featured shows and films:
- Boiling Point (Film + BBC Series)
- Adolescence (Netflix, 2025)
- Band of Brothers (HBO)
- 1917, Birdman, Rope
- Train to Busan, Peninsula, Undercover, Ferry, Black Crab
- The Bridge, Wallander, Borgen
🎧 If you’re into behind-the-scenes stories, intense drama, and the magic of single-take cinema — hit play.
