Aml Ameen: 'Idris Elba's like my big brother'

Aml Ameen reveals all about his role in the newly released Idris Elba-directed Yardie

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Joel Campbell

YARDIE REPRESENTS a seminal moment in film making history. Not just because it’s Idris Elba’s directorial debut, but also because few movies will capture a side of British and Jamaican history that pertains to so many people.

The narrative of those who chose to migrate over to the UK during the 1970s and early ‘80s from the Caribbean in order to give them a better opportunity to live a more prosperous life is well known, but rarely captured in the way Yardie does.

Based on the 1992 book by Victor Headley, the film is set in 1970s Kingston, Jamaica and 1980s Hackney, London.

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