Sunday, 3 December 2017

FICTIONAL ADAPTATION: ACTORS

My cast is a fully female cast. This was a genuine choice as I haven't made a film with a fully female cast and I think a story of 2 sisters with their Mother works for this adaptation. Although this could have easily be done with 2 Brothers and a Father it just felt right to have it the other way.

Carly Harding
Carly Harding is a 24 year old Drama and Musical Theatre graduate from the University of Cumbria. Having just graduated this year and has a range of Theatre acting experience, she is looking to get into films more. She contacted me a while ago asking me to keep her in mind for any projects so we met and she read through the script and was very interested in the character Stacey. I've seen her acting and she's very talented and found that I wanted her for Stacey's character more and there is more on the visuals with that character than the dialogue. 

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Sophie Harding
Sophie was one of the first people I met when I moved to Kent. Although she isn't an actor, Sophie is a very confident girl and never hides away. She is also the sister to Carly so they have similarities and the bond of being sisters so I asked her to play the character of Becky. She was slightly hesitant at first but after reading the script she was interested and agreed. 


Helen Gaston (Awaiting confirmation)
When it came to finding an actor for the character of the Mother, I knew I'd need to search further than the people I knew already so I went to Mandy.com to find an actress. When searching I was looking for an actor who could play an age role between 30-45. I was also looking for someone who's had experience playing a Mother previously. I found an actress called Helen Gaston who has had expereince playing a Mother on 2 television adverts and once in a theatre performance. From the 2 video files on her profile I can see she is a very confident and talented actress. She's also based in Kent which is very helpful. I've emailed her asking if she'd be interested in the project and I'm just awaiting confirmation. 

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