Neil Hardwick escapes the evil world

Cultural guest Neil Hardwick has made a huge number of Finns laugh. In his new book, he tells how he has been on the run all his life.

This is the beginning of Hardwick’s memoir *Deleted Scenes (WSOY)*.

British-born writer-director Neil Hardwick is said to see straight to the heart of Finnishness. Few people have a career to match him: he is known for his popular series, which have become television classics, and for his work directing in the theatre.

It all sounds like a dream. But Hardwick says his life has been like a getaway.

– I feel that the basic life of my life has been to escape. Somehow just out of this, Hardwick now says at home in Eira.

In the book, things are like he has remembered them at the time of writing. For good reason, Hardwick says he has destroyed his personal archive twice.

He suffered from depression in the late 1990s and burned three boxes of paper. During the second dark period, he deleted his digital mark. Hardwick describes the destruction as a temporary suicide.

But he is alive, and not even in the hanging, as in the book. Behind is another dense writing scratch.

-I have pain, I’m 76, but I’m fine, Hardwick defines his condition now.

Comedy in a minor key

In the era of co -culture, it could easily be said that the series created by Hardwick was all watched.

At that time, there was a lot of funny joke entertainment in Finland, which according to Hardwick was playing in the major. According to him, the Sketches of Speden were such, starting through a joke.

He himself was accustomed to British humor, who was playing in the minor and Hardwick decided to try the same in Finland.

Hardwick has written and directed entertainment and drama for both the Finnish Broadcasting and MTV since the late 1960s.

The small town’s gas station * tank full * and later * Reinikainen * were classic cases: critics made and the people loved. Later, the critics softened and Hardwick was able to expand his TV expression from comedy to drama.

After all, there is a bit of irony that the screenwriter who has seen the core of Finnishness is the breeder of the English mining town and later by the University of Cambridge. Nuclear physicist, intelligence and a lover of stage art. For this, we have to settle for.

Family was the worst

The teacher’s father was a strict conservative. However, he led his son to English humor and cricket before his early death.

The problems of the family twisted around the mother. Mom was a blurred person who played his games so that the siblings of the family often turned against each other. The unpredictable behavior of the mother, who pops the pills, kept both the father of the family and the offspring in fear.

– It wasn’t good to be at home. I was sent to a boarding school where it was even worse. The first salvation came when I got to university, Cambridge. I don’t know what would have happened to me without it, Hardwick sighs.

According to Hardwick, children do not cease to love their abuser parenting. Instead, they stop loving themselves.

The two daughters of the Hardwick family stayed in the place of residence. The lives of both have been and is very difficult. The city of Teversal was playing in the minor.

A new start in Finland

Hardwick came to Finland with a scholarship to study Finnish theater in 1968. And after all, the young woman who had met the student you had met on a trip last summer.

Soon he settled in Finland permanently and started everything from a clean table without the family’s ballast. Or should I say, fled to Finland?

Hardwick got married to a Finnish woman. Two children were born, but it was unhappy. In his book, he tells how his wife had a constant feedback.

– I now understand that my wife’s image of marriage was different from mine. For a long time I wanted to leave, but I couldn’t get out. I couldn’t get the goods moving without a horse, Hardwick analyzes.

The horse comparison comes from the old TV comedy series *Comedy Playhouse *, which Hardwick once watched with his father. There was a story where the boy wanted to move away from home. Dad did not borrow the son of a horse he needed to carry his move load. The boy got stuck with his cart.

Ventilation of the playwright

Many Hardwick’s created characters have also been stuck: Vilén’s Juhana *tank full in the *series, Tuija and Immu series *sister and its brother *.

Even though the people were in Junttura, the screenwriter removed. * Sister and her brother* aroused delight and confusion in Finland and in the international market. In the series, the disabled was acted by the disabled and the story started with the death of the siblings’ father. The dialogue was short and fast, quite different from what I was used to.

Hardwick renewed Finnish drama multiple more times. He worked tremendously. During the daytime, talshow was recorded at Maikkari and at night Hardwick wrote a TV series. He fled to work a challenging situation at home.

– Writing entertainment is terribly heavy and painful because it has deadline. It is said that it should not be as good as long as you are ready on Thursday.

– However, you always get over that schedule and notice that you can write. The moment when you get a good script to the actor, is happy.

Furs and Spedes and others

Falling into depression was also a kind of escape. * Hardwick, after the Pagan Map* drama series, was told that now enough. Ambitious doing is expensive. We will do lighter in the future.

Change in the TV world, the problems of marriage, burning and childhood traumas dumped into the dark of Neil Hardwick. He was seriously depressed for over two years. Other diseases also appeared.

When he was finally ready to go back to the light, a new safe haven was found in the theater.

– I could tell him that Ritva, could you … and he said, clear, even before I got the sentence. And then did exactly what I had thought. I can’t explain how it was possible.

Spede was bitter about Hardwick’s awards and appreciation he himself longed for, interprets Hardwick.

\”It went like this: this gay -looking foreigner, followed by all the pathetic Finnish moms,\” Hardwick laughs.

The two later met and the Turkka tone changed.

Writing is still a pleasure

In addition to the theater, Neil Hardwick directed another movie until the work faded. There were wrecks for a variety of reasons and more physical illnesses.

After the divorce, new partners were found, but no one for the rest of his life.

Now he lives alone, writes, watches high quality TV shows and meets a lot of his two children and their families. And at least, it has not ended up in snowy, as in *deleted scenes. *

In his memories, he occasionally returns to England to Topsal to watch his father * Comedy Playhousen * sketches. The story of a father and a boy, a horse and a cart still makes his eyes wet.

– In that story was the old recipe for Varietics: * Make Them Laugh, Make Them Cry, Curtain * – Put the audience laugh, make the audience cry, curtain.