ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

11 years, 1 month ago - Kate Gwynn

Hi Rodger,

I only recently graduated drama school so i currently have a lack of any footage to create a showreel. I have done a few shorts but have been unable to get hold of this footage too so i am looking to get anything really.

Casting wise i would like to play a young and naive romantic lead. Perhaps something regal. I do also love playing wacky comic characters. I love the characters from Julie Walters and Victoria Wood's sketches. This sort of thing but maybe toned down a bit. I would also like to do some presenting.

My Spotlight Pin is : 8419-6753-4475

Please email me on : kategwynn101@hotmail.co.uk

11 years, 1 month ago - AndBut Films

Always open to collaboration.
As for the kind of roles:
http://vimeo.com/79057750
http://vimeo.com/32256508

11 years, 1 month ago - Peter Revel-Walsh

I'm interested in a collaboration Roger I am going to send you a PM and lets see if we can come up with something I like character parts and I want to try and mix a couple of different time periods within the same project with a blurred line between the two, reality/fantasy or fact/fiction regards Peter

11 years, 1 month ago - Selina Armoudon

Hi Roger,

I would be interested in collaborating and have recently finished shooting my first short which I also wrote so am interested in continuing the film making process.

I have some small scripts that I would like to be developed but am also open to doing something else.

Thanks
Selina

11 years, 1 month ago - Angela Peters

Love to talk further Roger. What a brilliant idea. I'll send you a message with my CV and experience.

Dan and Allan, loving the banter (and serious side of the healthy debate). It's one go the reasons I love SP.

11 years, 1 month ago - Amy Barnes

Hi Roger, thanks for your post. I'd be interested in getting involved in a simple shoot which could show off some emotional rawness for me - I'd like to get very fierce and teary, as my showreel is missing this. Perhaps some kind of confrontation with a boyfriend or what not. I would be interested to hear if this is a scenario you'd like to shoot! I'm currently training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and am back for summer from the beginning of July until the end of September. I have been acting for several years prior to going to drama school, and I want a spanking new showreel for when I graduate next year. My links are below. Look forward to hearing from you!

Thanks -

Amy Barnes
CV: www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/9252-1207-4899

Showreel: https://vimeo.com/53083744

11 years, 1 month ago - Pat Garrett

Hi Roger, I echo what Julie has written - in spite of being a mature 'returning' actress, I'm not really a typical granny ;-) I'd love some comedy for my show-reel :-)

The direct link to my Spotlight page is: www.spotlight.com/9573-8976-9338

Hope to hear from you :-)

All the best
Pat

11 years, 1 month ago - Jennifer Jane Hooker

Hi Roger, I would like to talk to you more. I am about to redo my showreel and I would like some comedy on there. My email is jjanehooker@yahoo.com. You can find my current showreel on Spotlight 4412 4530 1293. Look forward to hearing from you. Jennifer Jane Hooker

11 years, 1 month ago - Julie Neubert

Hi Roger,
Something I feel strongly about is the fact that women in their late fifties/early 60s are generally consigned to 'granny' roles when we're out-and-about in the world as much as anyone else - working, forging new relationships, having sex, having adventures, contributing to society etc. I've been lucky to have recently played a couple of great roles in short films ('Rosemary Jane' and 'Pearl') but these are few and far between. Some great writing for interesting women in this age-group would be great.
Jules
(Julie Neubert)
Spotlight - 3212-0193-5099
or Casting Call Pro (just Google me)

11 years, 1 month ago - Sangeeta Reding

Hi Roger, how refreshing for someone to ask me who I want to play! My stereotype is British Asian mum/doctor/wife/business pro...etc,but what I can do well is grit! I am great at emotional stuff & have some combat experience (martial arts). I would love this more streetwise & interesting side on my showreel. I am also setting up some short film collaborations so maybe there are a few avenues to discover in working together. my Spotlight number is 4411-3427-3107.

11 years, 1 month ago - Laura Hanna

Hi Roger,

It's great to see this post. I am currently compiling my showreel but am heavy on series, slow-moving material and need to shoot some lighter, casual stuff, maybe some comedy.

I also wouldn't mind having some footage in a different accent - my father is Egyptian so I have slightly foreign looks and am often thought of as being Eastern European, so a Polish character would be useful for me.

I trained at LAMDA and graduated in 2011. Here is my Spotlight page: www.spotlight.com/4217-7862-7496

Do you have an e-mail I can send the edited material I have so far?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Laura.

11 years, 1 month ago - Dan Selakovich

The fake trailer is from a sketch show that's been going for about 30 years now, so network advertising dollars paid for it (is that what you were asking about?).

I always enjoyed "A bit of Fry and Laurie" when they held a mirror up to America.

I often get taken to task for steering these threads in a different direction, so I'll leave it at that. Glad you enjoyed it!

11 years, 1 month ago - Dan Selakovich

HA! Yes, I suppose there are a lot of "tossers" here, Mac! But having been around quite awhile, the actors I tend to know and work with are working professionals. We have two types of Tossers here: the professional acting school attendee and the "I just want to be famous" type. But I don't consider them true actors. Acting is a bit like playing the drums: anyone can pound on the things, but it take true dedication and skill to pull emotion out of them.

I like your comment about not using natural traits. Interesting. I've not come across that in my world. Perhaps when I encourage a natural trait I've observed, the actor doesn't know that about themselves, which is a sort of fascinating thing to think about.

For the British cliche, there is nothing better than this fake trailer from Saturday Night Live:
http://katabatic.tv/work/snl-british-movie/#.U6MvX17yDwI
Watch it. You won't be sorry.

As always, thanks for the insightful comments, Allan!

11 years, 1 month ago - Juliette Jeanclaude

I'm a bit of a romantic here! My dream is to play Elizabeth Bennett in Pride & Prejudice, but as I'm French it might probably never happen. I admire her strength of character, how she stands for what she believes in no matter what and does not give in to the rules, she follows her own rules. So if you want to imagine a woman with those characteristics, let me know, I'm in.

Warm regards,
Juliette Jeanclaude

Juliette.jeanclaude@gmail.com
07722064707

11 years, 1 month ago - Ainy Jaffri Rahman

Hi Roger,

I've been acting in Pakistan for the last 4 years and have just recently moved to London. I don't have an English show reel yet so am open to any number of character types.

My spotlight profile is: 9250-9082-3333

Here are some links to some of my work (with a short synopsis of each scene since they are all in Urdu):

Commercials
Origins: http://vimeo.com/89177321
Tapal: http://vimeo.com/82272978
Q Mobile: https://www.facebook.com/PakistaniAds/posts/474461912637647
Candi Biscuit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmOi8ExkJg
Omore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW1wf1UkBAs

Film
Main Hoon Shahid Afridi / I am Shahid Afridi (1:17:30 to 1:18:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf4-qLSiHzo

My character is flirting with a country boy who has mistakingly entered the girls bathroom

TV
Meri Behan Maya / My sister Maya (5:43 to 7:05)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjAXHfEqePU

My character, Maya is having a confrontation with her evil stepmom. Her stepmom is lecturing her on her rowdy behavior and tells her she is causing disrespect to her fathers name. She then tell Maya to leave. Maya stands up for herself by reminding the woman that she lives in her (Maya's) house.

Meri Behan Maya (5:05 till 8:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTfwY71B3w

Maya has come to say bye to her sisters boyfriend before heading back home (she has been visiting them at college in an attempt to escape her stepmoms wrath at home) He is telling her not to be scared of her stepmom. Maya says its difficult for her to feel happy again, everything has changed so suddenly since her step moms arrival, she's scared she can never go back to being the happy go lucky girl she used to be

Majazi Khuda / Husband (9:53 to 11.38), (13:27 to 14:30) & (27:45 to 28:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuBPJ1r3Fl4

My character has been raped and is getting questioned by the police in the first segment. She is crying in the second segment recalling the media's brutal questioning, and in the third overhears her mother in law telling her husband to leave her since she has been raped and is now unclean.

Please email me: anniejaffri@gmail.com.

Thanks!

11 years, 1 month ago - Hayley-Marie Axe

Hi Roger

I am interested in collaborating.

Best wishes
Hayley
IMDB: http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm4265324/
Website: http://www.hayleymarieaxe.co.uk/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Haxe82
SPOTLIGHT CV:
http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/4371-8973-5314

11 years, 1 month ago - Allan (Mac) McKenna

Thanks for the early morning chuckle Dan. Brilliant. Just thinking, it must cost a few bob to make these things and do they make money? If so how? Anyway like they say it's healthy to laugh at yourself occasionally and this lot send the Brit gangster movie up mercilessly.

11 years, 1 month ago - Jennifer scannell

Thank Roger. My link is jenevieve green on ccp..yes this would be fantastic. .i would like to play someone on the edge..

11 years, 1 month ago - Allan (Mac) McKenna

Whilst agreeing Dan that most actors have 'natural personality traits' you don't need to get them off actors exclusively. In fact given the artificial and more-than-a-little anxious world of theatre/cinema, you're more likely to get 'unrealistic' behaviour from actors (paradoxically?). I don't know what it's like your side of the pond Dan but over here (and speaking as an actor who writes a bit) there are some spectacular tossers in our biz. Some would say I'm one. As a writer I've continually got one ear open for the odd snatched phrase that you know is 'authentic'. How many expressions do you hear in cinema -probably less so now than yesteryear - that were invented in the studio and you never hear used outside the cinema? (I'm trying to think of one - maybe you can)
And Roger, while I'm here, as an actor (not in the first flush - you seem to have attracted a surfeit of them, both genders) the sort of part I've been cast in most often is the sort of person I don't really like in real life (although I've known a few) and that's a cockney yob/gangster. For me these parts are falling-of-a-log time. But whatever, your idea sounds intriguing and if you've got the time/inclination you might like to check out my showreel - Mac McKenna showreel 2013.

11 years, 1 month ago - Jade Younger

Hello
Very interested in collaborating and building my showreel. I'd love to do comedy, drama and fantasy.
Thanks

Jade

www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/8615-4539-9341

11 years, 1 month ago - Dan Selakovich

I'd just like to say, Good On You Roger. So often actors get a bad rap, and they are the most dedicated and creative people. I love the lot of them.

If I might make a suggestion: hang out with all of them. Get to know them outside of the project. You'd be surprised at what natural personality traits you can include in your writing and development of character.