Self Made

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Gillian Wearing

Writers

Leo Butler

Language

English

Country

United Kingdom

Release date

2 September 2011

Ensemble

Cast

• 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

• 

  Arabella Arnott

  Pregnant Woman

• Stephen Hawksby

  Arthur

• Leonardo Russo

  Middle Class Boy