Self Made
2011•1h 28m•Released
Documentary
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
Writer
Leo Butler
Languages
English
Studio
Doc Society
Cast
Sam Rumbelow
Self - Method Acting Teacher
Asheq Akhtar
Self
Lesley Robinson
Self
Dave Austin
Self
James Baron
Self
Lian Stewart
Self
Simon Manley
Self
Jerome Prince
Self
Tim Woodward
King Lear
Arabella Arnott
Pregnant Woman
Stephen Hawksby
Arthur
Leonardo Russo
Middle Class Boy
Helen Coverdale
Stepmother
Andrew Tennant
Middle Class Husband
Angela Stephenson
Middle Class Wife
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