so the electrical life of louis wain. s that he drew of cats with big eyes, sometimes playing snooker, doing crazy things, i realised that i knew who he was. and in this film, he's played by benedict cumberbatch and it goes to his sort of struggling artist days as we start off finding him trying to get work, scribbling away, and in the scene we're about to see, he meets tobyjones�*s editor who offers him some work. let's have a look. 0k. why were you throwing peanuts at a bull? i heard they like peanuts - and that it calms them down. but it didn't work. trouble with these - show cows — huge egos. it's a good job you can draw, mrwain, orwe would have parted ways some time ago — and don't think i haven't noticed the state of your visage! oh, this wasn't from. the bull, sirwilliam — i've just come from a boxing class with the greatjem mace. - boxing? mm. so, when did you draw this? 0n the train, from memory. all of them? mm—hm. so, how fast do you work, exactly? oh, just let me show you... hums i'll be frank with you, mr wain