Gunrunner Nun

The other week i had an audition in York for an independent film called Gunrunner Nun, for the part of a young girl called Harriet,  

When Gustav Gundersson decides he wants his teenage daughter Harriet to leave their small seaside town and move to the City, he offers a local Nun some money to walk her there.
They begin the two day journey, with the Nun -Ailsa- offering the teenage Harriet a crash course in religion, ethics and morals.
Their journey soon takes a turn for the worse however, when they encounter a woodland full of warriors, religious zealots and lunatics...

I thought the audition went really well and i was happy about it, even though i thought i would miss it. The audition was at 10am, my train got in at 9:50, and google maps told me it took 12 minutes to walk there! But i made it, and that evening i got an email telling me they were very impressed with me. Then the other day i was told they wanted to offer me the role!
Filming starts in January, should be fun.

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Ground Floor by Rayne

Just watched the music video i was in, and it looks pretty good, and the band sound really happy with it. It's going to be released on the 17th so i'll post it then. In the mean time...there's more photos!

No more Tim Roth Film

Last week my agent, Sam Claypole, called me about my Liability audition. I had been given a part, but they weren't keen to part with any money, wanting to pay minimum wage, not Equity minimum wage, but £5 and hour!
The most they were willing to stretch to was £37 for the whole thing! Sam said she had just laughed at them down the phone!
She wasn't happy with me doing what was basically a lingerie shoot for less than forty quid. We decided that if they could guarantee me a IMDB credit, i would go ahead with it, but the next day Sam called to say she had turned it down. They wouldn't budge from £40, and no IMDB. I would have been spending more on petrol for nothing.

Then i got a group email sent to everyone in JPM Extras, (they must have been supplying everyone else) to say they were dropping out of the job because the production company only wanted to pay £5 and hour for twelve hour days.
So it looks like The Liability may be a bit stuck< shouldn't be so tight then should they!

Saw-style music video

I'm sure i was just blogging about always being a plan B! Well, it happened again.
Melting Point Media had already asked me to be makeup artist for their latest music video, but their actress dropped out, so i was offered the part.

They wanted the classic horror movie chic, tears streaming, but still looking good. But i had to wear a horrible head-mask-thing that someone had constructed, and it was meant to look attached to chains and a huge metal frame. Lets just say i wasn't sad when the finally wrapped!

Presenting for BTV

Here's my first video from BTV, I'm on at about 7:20.

New Tim Roth film

Today i was at an open casting for supporting artists for the upcoming film The Liability, starring Tim Roth and Talulah Riley.

Apparently i was auditioning for the part of an Eastern European girl, possibly Talulah Riley's sister, but either way i had to put on a blindfold and cry all panicky.
Rob Earnshaw was the casting director, and he couldn't stop apologizing for having to make me carry out such a strange request. Apparently he'd only just been told we had to be blindfolded, and he was so glad he already knew me, otherwise he feared looking like a creepy pervert!

Before the auditions, there had been rumours circulating among the girls that in the audition room there was a bed where you would be required to strip to your underwear and be tied down for a photo. To which Rob replied, "You should just run out the office past everyone in tears like you've been through some horrific audition!"

But i think it went well! I hope to hear back from them. It starts filming at the end of the month.

In other news, Jonathan Lamb, the photographer from Heretic, has just launched a new website for himself as a designer and photographer, and his work is amazing! Check it out here.

I seem to be everyone's Plan B

I seem to always get calls from people that have had actors/models and crew not turn up, and ask if i could fill in, and today was another one of those days.

Natalie Pluck called to say her model had got the dates of the shoot mixed up, and was i free, and as it happens i have no life, so she headed straight to my house to sort clothes, hair and makeup for a photoshoot.

We were planning to shoot at some caves in Hartlepool, which sounded beautiful, i never even knew Hartlepool had caves! But the tide was against us, so we went back to Sheep Wash in the North York Moors. At least we got something out of the day.

Here is the first photo:

Also, the other day i was asked to do makeup for a music video on Sunday. Will definitely be different!