ENGLAND: actors (m/f) 28-40 for feature film shooting in/around London [P]

ref # 218899

closing date: This casting is now closed

production type: feature film
pay: paid

looking for: actors
based in/around: London, England

about the project

Casting a horror feature film about one man's struggles with impending fatherhood.

This feature is almost play-like in that it has two main actors playing multiple roles. A male and a female.

The story follows the male character as he learns to "grow-up" and prepare himself for impending fatherhood. However, like our shorts, this is a very unconventionally told story with scares, puppets and all sorts of strange things happening.

We are based in London and the South East and ideally are looking for talent from around that region. Eighty perecent of the story takes place in a house or the woods. The rest happens in a hospital bed and on the streets of central London.

We're aiming for a 10 day shoot but are keen to keep the length of those days reasonable. Shoots in August in London/South East, UK.


Looking to fill the following roles:
role 1 | actors | male
playing age: 28 - 40
role languages: English
DAVID (and other roles)

The actor will play David - the lead - and several other roles. This is a very big, meaty, varied role with plenty of dialogue, physicality and a clearly defined arc. David is an "edgy", free spirited, hipster millennial but now it's time to grow up. He's middle-aged and his girlfriend is pregnant, which triggers some bizarre/amusing physical afflictions in David. He has to remedy these afflictions by completing a five step self-help programme to then be deemed fit to be a father. But can David do this whilst still being "true to himself"?

There are two supplementary voice-acting roles which the actor playing David will also need to perform. These characters represent certain sides of David's personality and will really give the performer the opportunity to explore a wide spectrum of traits and characteristics within David's characters.

There is also a very brief role where the actor will need to play a police officer.

Note there will be some requirement for nudity in the role of David. Currently in the script there is a scene where he wears a hospital gown and we see his bare behind.
Please note, there may be some nudity/intimacy in this role. For more on what this means, please see here.
role 2 | actors | female
playing age: 28 - 40
role languages: English
MARTHA - and other roles

The actor will play four varied and strange roles to support/antagonize the main role of David.

Martha: Martha is pregnant. We see her as a construct of David's anxieties, fears and confused emotions from his perspective. This manifests as Martha being portrayed as merely a belly with a bump, an admirable sage, someone tired and aggressive to David's nonsense/self-indulgence, a loving partner.

Doctor: An overworked, no-nonsense Doctor who instructs David on what he has to do to complete his self-help course to "grow-up."

Mermaid: A confused construct of what David is meant to think is sexually attractive, the Mermaid tries to seduce David throughout the story. She's forthcoming and abrupt. Please note : as this role represents female sexiness from a deliberately unsubtle, reductive and patriarchal male perspective, it is likely that some nudity and/or "titillating" performance and costume will be required. But we are of course committed to accommodating any actors personal preferences, requests and views regarding this.

Police: A brief role as a no-nonsense police officer.
Please note, there may be some nudity/intimacy in this role. For more on what this means, please see here.

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