Noel Clarke has called his new movie 4.3.2.1 'a gear change'.
The actor is back in the director's chair as well as in front of the camera for his latest project, his first movie since Adulthood.
Speaking to Flavour magazine he said: "I wanted to do something different and not just write another hood film like what I've done before so people couldn't say 'Noel just does that and that' - I wanted to write something that wasn't being done in this country.
"4321 is a gear change. It's me saying, 'OK everyone else is doing that, let me do something different'.
"I feel personally that if people want to make films about stabbing and shooting and hood life that's fine - I've done it twice."
Clarke has brought together a cast of Emma Roberts, Michelle Ryan, Eve, Tamsin Egerton, Ophelia Lovibond and Shanika Warren-Markland in a movie that sees four girls becoming embroiled in diamond heist.
"I had a meeting after Kidulthood where a guy said me that the girls in the film were very negative, that he doesn't know any girls who behave like that and that he didn't think my film spoke to women.
"So instead of getting mad and smashing up my office, I went home and started writing about these four girls."
Clarke has already been on the big screen this year in Neil Marshall's Centurion and has Huge and Bliss! in the pipeline.
4.3.2.1 is released 4th June.
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