Wednesday June 23rd 2010
So day 2 of Castings and another rammed packed day of mostly talented people, still a lot of do’s and don’t’s in audition that you see. Two moments of real excitement for us, firstly the beautiful Ashley Madekwe (secret diary of a Call Girl series, 2 & 3 West 10 and This beautiful Life) came in and did what I knew she would, completely wow us. Ashley was genuinely fantastic but if I’m an honest was always my first choice for the role. We have put an offer to her agent, I’m confident she will say yes. The best moment of the day goes to Leticia Wright, OMG, if you don’t know the name you soon will, she is a brilliantly talented 16 year old, uber talented, special and just made the whole team buzz with excitement. The confidence/arrogance (every star has abit) that she bought into the room and the “realness and authenticity” she bought was insane. Letitia started of my bragging about her American accent and then began to talk to us for a minute in her best Alabama voice which was just spot on. Then when doing the scenes was just Special, I’ll say no more but you’ve been warned. A very successful day with possible two out of our three leading ladies sorted.
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
VICTIM MOVIE Diary day 2:
VICTIM MOVIE Day 2:
CASTINGS:
So it was straight into action for the Team, we had the wonderful venue of The Oval
Theatre (desperately requiring an artist director, please see Che Walker) for the place
to hold the castings. So we are solely concentrating on the female characters of the
Movie (it’s hard job), with the three main leads having already been cast, myself set to
play Mannie, Ashley Chin to play Tyson our lead and Michael Marris to play Jayson.
So Davina’s, Tia’s & Nyla’s today, Alex was completely brilliant at handling the
actress and giving everyone a fair shoot, if I was leading the castings I’m afraid I
wouldn’t have been as forgiving. All I can say for the actors out there you only get
one shot, PREPARE !! I was surprised to see people who hadn’t even the read full
script, how can I be passionate about you when your not passionate about my sfilm.
Also why would you want to be apart of a film that you have no idea what its about,
you might have to do anything. However we saw some amazing talent, and was very
exciting when a 14 year came in the last of the day and wowed us for Nyla.. lets
rumble.
CASTINGS:
So it was straight into action for the Team, we had the wonderful venue of The Oval
Theatre (desperately requiring an artist director, please see Che Walker) for the place
to hold the castings. So we are solely concentrating on the female characters of the
Movie (it’s hard job), with the three main leads having already been cast, myself set to
play Mannie, Ashley Chin to play Tyson our lead and Michael Marris to play Jayson.
So Davina’s, Tia’s & Nyla’s today, Alex was completely brilliant at handling the
actress and giving everyone a fair shoot, if I was leading the castings I’m afraid I
wouldn’t have been as forgiving. All I can say for the actors out there you only get
one shot, PREPARE !! I was surprised to see people who hadn’t even the read full
script, how can I be passionate about you when your not passionate about my sfilm.
Also why would you want to be apart of a film that you have no idea what its about,
you might have to do anything. However we saw some amazing talent, and was very
exciting when a 14 year came in the last of the day and wowed us for Nyla.. lets
rumble.
VICTIM MOVIE Diary day 1
VICTIM MOVIE Day 1 Monday June
Making dreams become reality:
After meeting various directors I Announce to the Team Victim (Ashley Chin,
Michael Marris, Danny Donnelly, Michael Kyie and Adrian Scott) that we have
selected Alex Pillai (Being Human) as director of Victim, We saw a lot of directors
all brilliant in their own way, but Alex shone through with his passion and experience.
He completely understood the requirements for the look of the film we wanted to
achieve despite the tiny budget and the icing on the cake was both me and Ashley
had seen the man at work, we had both worked with him over the past few months
working on the “new look” BILL. He is phenomenal and I can’t wait to watch him
steer Victim to NO1 box office smash, but he is going need a little help along the
way. Everyone was happy with decision including Pure Film co founder and my
fellow producer Danny Donnelly.
Making dreams become reality:
After meeting various directors I Announce to the Team Victim (Ashley Chin,
Michael Marris, Danny Donnelly, Michael Kyie and Adrian Scott) that we have
selected Alex Pillai (Being Human) as director of Victim, We saw a lot of directors
all brilliant in their own way, but Alex shone through with his passion and experience.
He completely understood the requirements for the look of the film we wanted to
achieve despite the tiny budget and the icing on the cake was both me and Ashley
had seen the man at work, we had both worked with him over the past few months
working on the “new look” BILL. He is phenomenal and I can’t wait to watch him
steer Victim to NO1 box office smash, but he is going need a little help along the
way. Everyone was happy with decision including Pure Film co founder and my
fellow producer Danny Donnelly.
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