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.
Gillian Wearing
Director
Leo Butler
Writer
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
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Love, Marilyn66%
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In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds75%
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing70%
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Making 'The Shining'71%
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I Know That Voice71%
This Changes Everything62%
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For Sama82%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Maidentrip70%
Audrey71%
