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.
Sam Rumbelow
as Self - Method Acting Teacher
Asheq Akhtar
as Self
Lesley Robinson
as Self
Dave Austin
as Self
James Baron
as Self
Lian Stewart
as Self
Simon Manley
as Self
Jerome Prince
as Self
Tim Woodward
as King Lear
Arabella Arnott
as Pregnant Woman
Stephen Hawksby
as Arthur
Leonardo Russo
as Middle Class Boy
