![]() He’s a kindly old grandpa who cares about his family, I think that’s the best way to describe him. And he’s sort of a little bit of a stick in the mud, really, but he’s kind. And he’s quite sort of traditional, and a bit stuck in his ways. ![]() Grandpa Smed, he’s the kind of patriarch of the Smed family, and he’s very much the kind of protector of the family, and he’s in charge. And actually, sometimes it takes the younger generation to sort of breach that divide. Faced with disapproval, they flee to a distant planet and Grandma Smoo and Grandpa Smed must. I think the thing I get from it is that the older generation tend to be more resistant to change. Bill and Janet fall in love while their families are at war. ![]() But you could change her mind at any moment and then she will love you to death.”īailey added: “I think the main themes of the film are that we should just accept differences in others. So when she’s your implacable enemy, she’s implacably your enemy. Grandma Smoo’s not a woman of mild tastes, everything’s fairly strong with her. ![]() “Grandma Smoo utterly capable, she can drive a rocket, she can clump about the place, she can blow her trumpet, delight in her kids and her grandkids and she can hate with a passion as well. “There’s just the sort of ignorant prejudice that people can harbor about each other until they come together and actually love and that survival and kinship are the things that bind all of us,” said Andoh of the best-selling book. ![]() The film, produced by Magic Light Pictures, will be released on BBC One and iPlayer this Christmas. ![]()
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