amrou is iraqi but grew up in dubai wanting to marry mccaulay culkin which not everyone loved as an idea and they moved to london and were obsessed with hermaphrodite fish so they worked at an aquarium and then went to cambridge university where they ran their first drag night called denim that everyone loved and they have been an actor since the age of 12 in a gazillion different films and tv shows and they’re also an accomplished screenwriter for tv which meant that directing had to happen next and they’ve shot some amazing bfi funded shorts and just released their first feature layla which premiered at sundance and has amazing reviews and because that’s not enough they are also a famous drag artiste called glamrou and a published award-winning author and a frequent contributor to a billion different publications including the guardian and attitude and i-d and dazed and gay times and all of this and the fact that they fancied robin hood the cartoon fox when they were seven is fairly obviously why amrou simply had to become an immediate knucklehead