‘Get Carter? I thought no reputable actor would do it’: how Mike Hodges shook up British film

• When I spoke to Mike Hodges in April this year, Get Carter had just turned 61, and Hodges himself was closing in on 90. He was preparing for a career retrospective at the British Film Institute titled Return of the Outsider – though the jovial figure on the other end of the Zoom call carried himself as anything but a misfit.