Comedy film about racism 'On The Other Foot' airing across UK

Jason Devil, who has lived in Brighton for five years, has worked all across the world since the 1990s as a personal security guard to film and music stars, including Will Smith and Rihanna.

In the last decade, he founded a business which offers security on film sets, with one of their most recent jobs helping for filming of ITV’s Grace in Sussex.

But the 51-year-old has turned his hand to a new venture, this time as an associate producer and actor for an independent comedy about a racist cab driver written and directed by his cousin, Fredi Nwaka.

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“On the other foot” is a comedy set in London about racist cabbie, Billy Pitcher. His daughter dates a black man who is a doctor and convinces him to attend an African church to embrace her partner’s culture.

The twist? He miraculously wakes up the next morning in a black person’s body and finds himself quite literally on the other foot with the same skin colour as the people he detests.

“With other films about racism, people often leave angry or upset”, said Jason, “this film shows it in another way and has a strong message but in a light-hearted way.”

“It’s not a case of a film just for black people, this is a film which has a message. People leaving the film might not realise they have been racist. They might see a black guy in a nice car and think ‘is he a drug dealer?’ or have those sort of thoughts.

“This will show them that the person driving the nice car might just be a businessman, so don’t judge a book by its cover. ‘On The Other Foot’ is to show what we have been through in the past when we get stopped by the police for just driving a nice car or people looking at you in a certain way.

"When we did the Premiere, some people cried at the end. I won’t tell you the ending but people cried, there was laughter all the way through it."

Jason, left, with director, Fredi Nwaka at the film's premiere in December

The film is written and directed Fredi Nwaka, who has worked as an actor since 2009 and started directing from 2014.

It stars Tim Faraday, Aurie Styla, Lily Smith, Chidi Ajufo and even Peter Andre. Jason also plays a part in the film as a racist police officer called detective Black.

He said: “Fredi came to me and told me about what he was doing, I said I was interested and would help put money in. I saw the potential of this film and decided to put the money into it.

Tim Farraday, left, plays Billy Pitcher - while Aurie Styla, right, plays Billy after he becomes black

“I believe where Fredi has come from, his achievements in life. Nothing has stopped him. He has done this off his own back and I respect that so much.

“We wanted the film to be for everybody, so we don’t have swearing. It doesn’t matter if you’re black, white or whatever, everyone can go and watch it and get something out of it.”

The film is being shown for one night only in 81 Odeon cinemas across the country, including Odeon in West Street, Brighton at 7.40pm on March 23. For more information to buy tickets, visit Odeon's website.