‘We call them Cat Costumes. Pussycat bows, or if we saw a slightly furryish trim on an item, we’d use it’

“I thought the script was fantastic. And I went to meet [director] Will Sharpe whose work I was a fan of and I said, ‘this is going to be exciting,’’ he said, admitting he didn’t know much about Wain prior to his work on the film. “I recognised the pictures once they were in front of me, and started referencing them for the meeting with Will, but I didn’t know much about Louis at all...