The Toll, released in the US with the title Tollbooth, is a 2021 Welsh black comedy crime film directed by Ryan Andrew Hooper and written by Matt Redd.
[2] On 11 June 2017, The Times newspaper reported that Olivier award-winning actor Simon Russell Beale had appeared in a short film after being "charmed" by director Ryan Andrew Hooper.
[4] It was announced on 10 December 2018 by Screen Daily that shooting of The Toll had been completed in Wales and that the film would star Michael Smiley, Annes Elwy, Iwan Rheon, Paul Kaye and Steve Oram.
[8] On 25 August 2021, while promoting the UK release of the film, Iwan Rheon appeared in a "car crash" interview on ITV's flagship morning show Good Morning Britain where the presenters repeatedly got a number of facts about the actor wrong live on air, including a claim that he had ambitions to enter the Eurovision Song Contest.
"[14] There was another three star review from Matt Glasby in the Radio Times, who said the film "plays like a stylishly shot sitcom, with good gags about thorny UK relationships and a strong supporting cast including Paul "Dennis Pennis" Kaye.