 The film's cast includes the former professional footballer Eric Cantona and Steve Evets, former bass guitarist with The Fall.Loach said of the film, "We wanted to deflate the idea of celebrities as more than human.And we wanted to make a film that was enjoying the idea of what you and I would call solidarity, but what others would call support for your friends really, and the old idea that we are stronger as a team than we are as individuals."