To me, to you: comedian Paul Chuckle is going to the dark side for his latest role in thriller Fall To The Top.
Words you never expect to type – Paul Chuckle is playing a hitman.
Beloved by millions for his decades long career as one half of The Chuckle Brothers alongside his late brother Barry, they dominated children’s television for many years. ChuckleVision ran on the BBC from 1987 to 2009, clocking up a whopping 292 episodes and very nearly rivaling shows like Last Of The Summer Wine for the title of longest running sitcom.
Since Barry sadly passed away in 2018, Paul has continued working in pantomime and has taken on sporadic television roles, appearing in an episode of Doctors with Su Pollard and Ruth Madoc, and he has a recurring role in The Madame Blanc Mysteries.
His next role is very much against type, though. He will play a violent hitman called The Jackal in an independent thriller called Fall To The Top.
Writer and director Peter Hirst told the Rotherham Advertiser, “He was fantastic on the set, I was very impressed by how he switched so easily. Afterwards it wasn’t too hard to get him back to his cheery self, though!”.
Hurst said the character “is not a typical assassin, he doesn’t need traditional weapons. He will drug a target, trick them with mind games, push them to the extent that they kill themselves. He never has to get his hands dirty, instead he pushes them to extremes and makes them do it themselves.”
The description on the Fall To The Top IndieGoGo page promises “violence, gore and power struggles like you’ve never seen”
Although news of his casting was a surprise to me, to you it may not be, if you’re aware of the surreal video released in 2016 of The Chuckle Brothers advertising the videogame Hitman.
Over the last few years there have been reports of ChuckleVision being rebooted as an animated series. No news on that, but here’s the trailer for Fall To The Top…
