After admitting to being a huge Top Boy fan when he was growing up, Micheal told NME in November that playing Jamie was his dream role. "I spent eight months filming it and then on the last day of filming, when I realised it was all over, I just started crying. The emotion came over me, I was so proud of what we'd made, of myself, and knowing that my family — and the world — were about to see what I'd just done."