Andrew Hayden-Smith shares ‘Cucumber’ costume snap
By Josh Haggis
Andrew Hayden-Smith has shared a picture from the set of Russell T Davies’s new Channel 4 gay-themed series Cucumber.
Cucumber, an eight-part drama, will be broadcast next year alongside its E4 sister show Banana, which will take a closer look at the lives of the series’ younger characters. Filming is now underway in Manchester, where the shows are set.
Hayden-Smith posted the behind-the-scenes picture on Instagram yesterday (August 21) with the caption: “Today’s costume… #cucumber”
Other actors appearing in Cucumber and Banana include Twenty Twelve‘s Vincent Franklin, former Coronation Street actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, In the Flesh star Luke Newberry and comedian Rufas Hound
An interconnected factual web series, Tofu, is also in development, and is billed as an “anarchic online guide to sex” inspired by the events each week in Cucumber and Banana.
Explaining the titles of the shows last year, Davies said: “I once read about a scientific institute which had studied the male erection. It divided the hard-on into four categories, from soft to hard.One, tofu. Two, peeled banana. Three, banana. And four, cucumber. Right there and then I knew I had my drama.”
Cucumber, Banana and Tofu are set to air in early 2015.
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