Onwards and Sideways: Ifans, Linney on Parkinson's — SkimNews
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- Paul Mayhew-Archer, who has Parkinson's disease and co-created Vicar of Dibley, wrote Onwards and Sideways.
- Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney play a couple who bond over their diagnoses in Onwards and Sideways — their first job together, with production still ahead.
- Onwards and Sideways tackles a devastating subject but laced with humour, the actors say, adding: 'We both know how we feel about death and dying.'
Why it matters: Because Mayhew-Archer writes from his own Parkinson's diagnosis, the couple's shared prognosis is dramatised from the inside, giving Ifans and Linney material that is intimate rather than observational — and putting a frank conversation about death and dying, without shedding the humour, in front of audiences.
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