How a 30-Year-Old Mastermind Fooled an Entire High School Into Thinking He Was a Teen—And What It Means for Trust in the Digital Age
I mean, here’s this kid who grew up in Bearsden, where there’s expectations placed upon [young people]. What could be going on that would make you so fixated and so focused — to be frozen in time and watch your classmates, two times, grow up and get on and have jobs and stuff? What would that be like?
I don’t know, the really freaky thing about this whole process for me is having a success that’s tied to someone else’s failure. That’s so bizarre. But there’s a Glasgow writer I know called Denise Mina — a crime writer, she’s amazing — and some of her books have been related to real events. And she says that when you want to tell stories like this, you have to have something of the vampire about you, because you’re essentially feeding off of someone else’s misfortune. And so I’m super-aware of that, and I guess that’s why the film is the way that it is.
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