Why we're watching: Ed Skrein

The actor, 29, who came to cinema by way of being an MC and coaching sportsI've got it already. He's Plan B's mate, isn't he? Boom!Another urban "yoof" film - terribly clichéd, isn't it? Skrein reckons his generation has been misrepresented in the cinema so far. "It's all white cockney films or black urban films, isn't it?" But, he says, Ill Manors, directed by his friend Ben Drew (aka Plan B), gives "a more realistic picture of what's going on in London".What's his past? The bad boy come good,...

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