EUROPE: actors (m) 55-69 English spkrs, for tv series [P]
project title: Washington Black
production type: television
pay: paid
looking for: actors
based in/around: Europe
about the project
WASHINGTON BLACK / Pilot – Straight to Series SAG-AFTRA
Exec. Producers: Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Jennifer Johnson, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, DJ Goldberg, Jeremy Bell, Lindsay Williams, Sterling K Brown (Indian Meadows Productions)
Producers: Jon Paré
Writer: Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Casting Director: Kamala A. Thomas
Casting Associate: Melanie J. Brown
Casting Assistant: Steven Gutierrez
Start Date: February 2022
Location: Iceland, Canada, Mexico
Storyline: A young Black man who grew up as an enslaved person on a Barbados plantation before traveling the world on a steampunk adventure with the plantation owner’s brother, GEORGE WASHINGTON ”WASH” BLACK is now 19 years old and living in Nova Scotia as a free man; Wash works the docks, paints, hones his flying invention and falls in love–until his past catches up with him, threatening his new life and all of his dreams that have kept him going…
playing age: 55 - 69
role languages:
role ethnicities: White
The character: Peter Haas, is a Scandinavian man in his 60s, and a kind person. He is Mr. Wilde's expedition companion and a capable survivalist himself. He teaches Wash a few words in sign language and joins the team on a hunting mission, but suffers a grave injury no thanks to Titch's error. Peter will intersect with Washington Black later in his life and is given a second chance to help him.
*MUST BE FLUENT IN BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE.
