FMP 'Endure' meeting actors, actress and rehearsal

Using the website 'starnow' which allows access to a wide database of established and up and coming actors we managed to locate an actor (Philip Stapleton) who we thought would be suitable for the role of Tom; the delinquent. After contacting him we organised a meeting in Blackburn in order to get a better sense of how he'd fit into the film, when we saw him and after talking to him me, Alex and Jordan agreed that he would fit perfectly.



We also had a good idea of the person who we wanted to play our female character of the mother, since Alex had worked with her before we decided to ask local artist Heather Ashton if she was interested. Luckily for us she was more than willing to star in the film and immediately agreed to attend a rehearsal with Philip, which went very well and allowed us to practice the more difficult scenes where Tom and his mother argue.


Using this rehearsal session we were able to identify which lines of the script the actors had trouble with and whether they felt more comfortable adding in their own lines rather than sticking rigidly to the script, which is always good for actors. On such line called for Philip to say to his mum, 'Oh..what the fuck man', this sounded wrong to me since it's meant to be a British character so I brought up it during rehearsal, as a result we let Philip say what he felt more comfortable with and the scene flowed much better.

Rehearsal video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HfzU87HKkCg

 

 

 

 

We also decided that Peter Quinn who I mentioned in a prior post would be ideal to play the stepdad role, he was happy to take part and commented about how he enjoyed the script which was encouraging. We also managed to secure a young actor to play Luke, George Conlon, Jo Conlon's (one of our tutors) son, he was enthusiastic about the role and was very promising during rehearsal.