![]() He was born in Bristol those numerically inexact years ago to "ordinary white working-class West Country folk, no books in the house, they were football-obsessed I'd been a late child". Only now, with the gothic grandeur of Luther, and the first (frankly eviscerating) Luther book, The Calling, do we see how this was all a massively creative non-waste of time. The thing is, this man was never a predestined success story a good bulk of his life was spent bumming off the dole. ![]() Or writing Luther, the last series of which was watched by 7 million, won sterling reviews, is becoming cult viewing in America and could soon be a movie. There, he'd been working on a few scripts for Guillermo del Toro, into whom he'd bumped by chance in his (Cross's) now home country of New Zealand, where he lives with his Kiwi wife and two children in a barefoot idyll. Bounce might be a better verb: he's quite a bouncy man, and a terrific conversationalist, even at 9am the morning after a flight back from Canada. ![]() ![]() T here are worse ways to lurch into your 40s than by being Neil Cross at the moment. ![]()
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