Actor Profiles.
Seán Hannon (myself)
Character: Billy Burke
Height: 6ft 2
Build: Skinny
Eyes: Green
Hair: Dark Brown
Nationality: Irish
Playing Age: 14-20
Skills:
Languages: English (native) Spanish (fluent) French (fluent) Yoruba (good) Irish (good) Italian (basic)
Accents and Dialects: Cockney, Birmingham Accent, Irish Accent, Spanish Accent, French Accent
Sports: Football, Gaelic Football
Inspirations:
Favourite Director: Ken Loach
Favourite Actor: Daniel Kaluuya
Favourite Television series at the moment: After Life
Favourite Film of all time: Blue Story
Why did I cast myself as Billy Burke: I am going to play Billy Burke due to the fact that I believe I understand his role the best and understand all the inspirations behind the character. Moreover, I believe I look most like the actual Billy Burke (1858-1919).
Diego De Vita
Character: Police Officer (not named)
Height: 5'5''
Build: Muscular
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: Dark Brown
Nationality: Italian
Playing age: 14-20
Skills:
Languages: Italian(native), English(fluent) Spanish(fluent) and Arabic (good)
Accents and Dialects: Italian, Cockney
Sports: Football, Badminton
Inspirations
Favourite Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Favourite Actor: Daniel Kaluuya
Favourite Television series at the moment: The Tourist (BBC)
Favourite Film of all time: Planta 4a
Why did they want to act in my film? Diego has always had a profound interest in film and does IB film so this was always a project he wanted to work in.
Why did I cast Diego as a police officer: I believe that Diego, being very muscular, has a large presence as this character and would look intimidating and powerful.
Antero Touchard
Character: Officer Tom Byrnes
Height: 6ft 3
Build: Muscular
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Nationality: English/ Spanish
Playing age: 15-21
Skills:
Languages: English (native) Spanish (native) French (fluent)
Inspirations:
Favourite Director: Quentin Tarantino
Favourite Actor: Denzel Washington
Favourite Television series at the moment: Line of Duty
Favourite Film of all time: Volver (2007)
Why did they want to act in my film? Antero had experience doing Drama in school and so when I asked him if he wanted to act in my film, he was up for it.
Why is Antero playing Officer Tom Byrnes?
I have cast Antero to play Officer Tom Byrnes in my Television series because he has a very large presence, physically as well as metaphorically and I believe he would make a very intimidating police officer.
Rodrigo López Suárez
Character: Police Officer (not named
Height: 6ft 2
Build: Skinny
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: Dark Brown
Nationality: Spanish
Playing age: 14-20
Skills:
Languages: Spanish (native) English (fluent)
Accents and Dialects: Spanish English accent
Inspirations:
Favourite Director: Steve McQueen
Favourite Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Favourite Television series at the moment: Lupin
Favourite Film of all time: The Shawshank Redemption
Why did they want to act in my film? As we can see by his numerous inspirations in film, Rodrigo, despite having no experience in acting, has always been interested in film and is a very big admirer of the British-Nigerian actor Chiwetel Ejiofor. Rodrigo particuarly praised Chiwetel Ejiofor for his spectacular acting in the film 12 years a Slave, which was released in 2013.
Nicolas Milovic
Character: Victim of Billy Burke (not named)
Height: 5ft 8
Build: Skinny
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: Dark Brown
Nationality: Spanish/ American
Playing Age: 13-18
Skills:
Languages: French (Fluent) English (Native) Spanish (Native) Turkish (Good)
Accents and Dialects: American accent (native accent) Spanish accent (in English)
Sports: Basketball
Inspirations:
Favourite Director: Martin Scorsese
Favourite Actor: Leonardo Dicaprio
Favourite Television series at the moment: Breaking Bad
Favourite Film of all time: The Irishman
Why did they want to act in my film? Film has always been a big part of Nicolas' life, being a very big Scorsese fan.
Why did I cast Nicolas as a victim of Billy Burke?
Nicolas is very skinny and could look quite vulnerable. If I was to cast Diego as the victim, it would not look as realistic.
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