Three Actors Needed for Short Film Project
Sheffield, United Kingdom
A Dark Comedy about a kidnapping gone wrong
Expired: 9 April 2014 - Relist
Location
Sheffield, UK
Member Since
Mar 2014
Previous Listings
Under 5
Audition and script read throughs-02/04/2014-06/04/2014
Shoot dates-07/04/2014-11/04/2014
Location-Jacob's Factory Sheffield, Abbeydale Road
Genre- Dark Comedy
Synopsis :- We follow two kidnappers in a case of a kidnapping gone wrong. When the florist of Lancaster 'Florist of the Year' title has them dethroned by the a rival shop, the Florist of York. The owner and shop assistant at the Lancaster florist decide to kidnap the son of the owner of the Florists of York. It is only at the hostage point where they realise that they have made a terrible error in kidnapping the completely wrong person.
Payment details: no pay
Applications to this casting call require:
- A phone number
- A profile photo
Henry
Personality Description :- Nervous, inept, paranoid, tent , shaky , worried .
Physical Appearance: Overweight, small-medium height, going bald/bald.
Males, aged 40 to 55 from Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Has acting agent: Yes
- Height: 152 cm / 5ft 0in - 175 cm / 5ft 9in
- Weight: 82 kg / 180 lbs - 105 kg / 231 lbs
- Minimum Acting experience: No previous acting experience
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Skin colour: White
- Attended drama school: Yes
- Languages spoken: English
- Accents spoken: UK English
- In acting union: Yes
- Hair length: None
- Hair type: Bald
Percy
Personality: Aggressive, ambitious, sadistic, creepy, eerie odd, sinister, ghostly, spectral, unnatural.
Physical Appearance: Underweight, tall-medium height, creepy figure.
Additional Info: Even though his character is quite menacing he never actually conducts any physical violence towards the victim.
Males, aged 20 to 25 from Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Has acting agent: Yes
- Height: 182 cm / 6ft 0in - 208 cm / 6ft 10in
- Weight: 75 kg / 165 lbs - 100 kg / 220 lbs
- Minimum Acting experience: No previous acting experience
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Skin colour: White
- Attended drama school: Yes
- Languages spoken: English
- Hair length: Medium
- Hair type: Straight
Kidnap Victim
Physical Appearance: Overweight-pot belly, small height.
Additional Info: This character’s face is never seen and his identity is never revealed. This character is mistaken by the new employee Percy, for the son of the rival florist in Lancaster.
Although dialogue is minimum, comic timing is essential as the character has a completely nonchalant attitude to the whole situation. The character spends the entirety of the film bound to a chair with a bag over his head.
Males, aged 35 to 50 from Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Height: 152 cm / 5ft 0in - 182 cm / 6ft 0in
- Weight: 70 kg / 154 lbs - 85 kg / 187 lbs
- Minimum Acting experience: No previous acting experience
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Skin colour: White
- Attended drama school: Yes
- Languages spoken: English
Accents spoken: UK English
We also contacted actors directly through this site as well as waiting for interest.
The problem we encountered with the actors was their schedules as lots of the could only do one or two days because they were also doing paid work in other projects. We had a script read through with James and Wayne who told us they were available to film on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th and from the script read through we thought they were perfect, but James got a paid roll in something else and could only do the weekend. We tried to find someone else to join Wayne who could only do Tuesday and Wednesday, but we couldn't so we started looking for two more actors.
Danny found two actors who could work on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th which was brilliant so we organised a script read through with Michael David Worden and we thought he was perfect for either character, but because of the aged difference we thought that it would make sense for him to be Henry. We then organised a script read through with Declan Smith who we also liked and thought would be perfect for Percy. This then caused problems for the location, but a problem that could be solved.
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