Self Made (2011)
In 2007, Gillian Wearing placed an advert – in newspapers, online, in job centers, and elsewhere. It read: “Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character. Call Gillian.” Of the hundreds of people who replied, seven – chosen through an extended process of auditions, interviews, and workshops – ended up appearing in Self Made. Of those seven, five in particular use the acting technique known as Method to delve into their memories, impulses, anxieties, fears, fantasies, and inner resources to create a series of individual performance vignettes, their personal ‘end scenes’, that reveal with particular intensity and clarity who they really are deep down – or who, in another version of their lives, they might easily have been.
Director: Gillian Wearing
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Sam Rumbelow as Self - Method Acting Teacher |
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Asheq Akhtar as Self |
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Lesley Robinson as Self |
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Dave Austin as Self |
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James Baron as Self |
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Lian Stewart as Self |
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Simon Manley as Self |
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Jerome Prince as Self |
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Tim Woodward as King Lear |
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Arabella Arnott as Pregnant Woman |
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Stephen Hawksby as Arthur |
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Leonardo Russo as Middle Class Boy |
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Helen Coverdale as Stepmother |
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Andrew Tennant as Middle Class Husband |
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Angela Stephenson as Middle Class Wife |
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Adam Bird as Bully |
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Martin Forsyth as Bully |
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David Harbison as Bully |
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Michael Laing as Bully |
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Mike Martin as Bully |
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Dave Simmons as Bully |
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Daniel Spiller as Bully |
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Dave Watson as Self |
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Ali Pritchard as Brother 1 |
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Jacob Anderton as Brother 2 |
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Tor Clark as Claretta Petacci |
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Luca Matteo Zizzari as Self/Mercurio |
| Directing | Gillian Wearing | Director |
| Writing | Leo Butler | Writer |
