Tuesday 18 March 2014

Character profiles


Character profiles


Each actor chosen was selected from a possible group of 3. The actors were told to stand in certain positions and read in a certain accent, the best of the 3 were chosen for each part while the other two were asked whether they were interested in any other parts.

The character profiles allow the actor to maintain a better understanding of the character they are portraying, this is helpful as they can picture the characters life and imagine as if they are actually the characters themselves.

 

Mike

Actor:

Name: Daniel Cantlay                        D.OB.: 15/05/96

Personal Appearance: He is small for his age due to malnutrition and years of basic captivity; he is light skinned and pale. Hair colour is a mixture of light and dark brown; his clothing will be a hooded top, grey jogging pants and trainers.

Personality: Mike is very reserved and very quiet due to his very limited human contact from his captivity. He may seem very weak and unable to truly come into his own but he still shows fight and courage to carry on.

Background: Mike was born in Russia in July 1978; he was born to a poor family in the Ivanovo region. He was an only child, he lived with his parents for the first 4 years of his life before a revolution began and he was taken from his family and recruited by the drug lords to eventually fight against the dictatorship that was occurring. He was trained in a warehouse with many hundreds of children for 5 years until he was 9 years of age, at this time the dictatorship had fallen and Russia was a lost country. Drug lords ruled the country and Mike was sold to a smaller drug lord who used him to make drugs within a building deep within the woods.


Captor One

Actor:

Name: Scott Jenkinson                       D.O.B: 07/08/96

Personal Appearance: He is not really intimidating in size or height, he is pale and his hair colour is unknown due to him wearing a hat all the time. His clothing is a black parka coat black jogging pants and trainers.

Personality: Real name is Roman Angelov, his personality is rather unknown we know that out of all the captors he is the most likable in the building where the boys are held captive. He is skilled at fighting and he is well trusted and has goodness inside of him. His clothing is grey jogging pants and trainers with a purple parka coat.

Background: Born in April 1959, he was the middle child of 5 brothers; his parents were gunned down in a mass shooting by the gang of a drug lord. He joined Alexander Solimir when he was homeless and needed money. He slowly built his reputation up and become one of Alexander’s right hand men.

 

Captor Two

Actor:

Name: Ellis Fitzgibbon     D.0.B: 06/4/96

Personal Appearance: Stocky with broad shoulders, his face is rarely seen but when it is he has medium length brown hair. His clothing is a black parka coat black jogging pants and trainers.

Personality: Real name is Arnolk Sweech, Arnolk’s personality is rather confusing, he claims to love peace and want peace on earth but we never see the true Arnolk as (he is an avid drug user and in most scenes he is under the influence). Arnolk does reveal he hates his job but does it for his child with whom he aims to find once he has enough money. He was a former wrestler in high school who was taken off this path via drugs.

Background:  Born in December 1961, he is an only child who grew up in a middle class family in the farmlands of Russia, his father died of cancer aged 12 and took up wrestling as a distraction only to be hooked on cocaine and marijuana by the age of 18, he took up a job aged 22 as a small time drug seller and grew a successful partner with Alexander Solimir who took him under his wing and taught him a lot about the drug industry.


Captor Three

Actor:

Name: Jack Hughes               D.O.B: 15/08/96

Personal Appearance:  Real Name is Stavan Hontawitz and he is the biggest of all the captors and has the most power in terms of strength. He is pale and has medium length black hair and some stubble; his clothing will be combats, a bubble coat and trainers.

Personality: He is very mean and treats the prisoners with the most disrespect due to him being the “enforcer”. He is a avid gym goer and is very self conscious and is constantly paranoid that people are mocking him.

Background: Born in February 1958, he was born to parents Austov and Peggy right when the famine hit, he barely survived, he had one brother who died mysteriously in Stavans house but he was acquitted after questioning, he was left homeless as his parents no longer wanted to know him so aged 20 he was working for a larger drug lord who ordered him to work for Alexander

 

Back up Actors (understudies)

Harry Rendell

Paul Fletcher

Matthew Murphy


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