Celebrated screenwriter Paul Laverty tells Esther McCarthy about teaming up with Ken Loach again for a film about a man battling to survive as a van driver in the gig economy. The gig economy — and its devastating impact on workers and families — is the subject matter of Ken Loach’s latest film, Sorry We Missed You. For screenwriter and longtime Loach collaborator Paul Laverty, the idea was formed when they were working on their last film. “As we went around the food banks up and down the country, what we found really remarkable was the numbers of working poor. But the screenwriter initially found getting individual accounts a challenge — because stressed workers simply didn’t have time.

Source: Irish Examiner October 28, 2019 20:03 UTC