Sing Street star had to learn how to act on the film

Sing Street's Ferdia Walsh-Peelo had never acted in a film before when he got the lead role in the new film and had to learn on the job

Young Irish fella Ferdia Walsh-Peelo was just 14 when he was plucked out a thousands of hopefuls to take on the lead role in John Carney's new film Sing Street. And while he had some impressive stage work to his name, including a part in Benjamin Britten's operatic take on The Turn of the Screw, nothing prepared him for getting in front of a camera for the first time.

After several auditions he was chosen to take on the role of Conor - a teenager living in Dublin in the 1980s who forms a band to impress a girl. That sets of an adventure in reinventing the pop music of the decade, complete with outlandish clothes and hairdos and some wonderful music sequences.