Finding a cast member

 Wednesday 23rd Feb 2022

Finding Kate:

We were having trouble finding a teacher to play the part of Kate as many female teachers we either busy during the day or it was there day off. For Kate we wanted her to have brown hair as we wanted her to contrast Nikki's hair who is playing Cassie. We wanted Kate to look significantly younger than Cassie to show that the husband Thomas is cheating with younger ladies. Both Doug and I emailed lots of suitable people but they all weren't free because of different things. We were getting bit more stressed about it because it was getting closer to our shoot day and we new that we needed to find somebody soon. Luckily, my mum said even though she doesn't like being in front of a camera, she would step in and help if we couldn't find anyone. This would also be helpful as my brother would be on set as he is playing the child. I told Adam in the morning that I couldn't find someone and he said that he will also ask around to see if any of the other teachers would be keen. 

Email to Susanna,

We first emailed Susannah to see if she was available to play the part. She wasn't available as she has already been cast in a few other shoots.

Email to Natalie:

We then emailed Natalie in the drama department. I knew that she might be pretty busy as she only works a few days and has young children. She was very apologetic when I spoke to her in person but unable to play to play the part.

Email to Ali:

We new that Ali would be hard to get as she has a very busy schedule and was very sorry when she said that she couldn't be in it. 

Talking to Adam:

I then spoke to Adam as I was worried that we weren't going to be able to find anyone to play the part in time. Adam suggested that we could use an A1 student to play the part if there wasn't anything romantic happening in the sequence. As the only thing that Kate needed to due was sit in a cafe, pub and be killed at the end, we decided that this was our best option. I then looked for people in my year that would fit our criteria. One of my best friends Freya fit the criteria and also looked mid 20s when she has make up on. I spoke to her and she agreed to play Kate on the day. As we didn't have too long until the actual shoot day, I told her that she should wear mum jeans, a sweater and a scarf as that is what is popular with ladies around 20 now. 

Freya Soley: