Peppermint

James: We gathered the small crew in the video studio in the Digital Arts Centre. I laugh now because my diary says “I’m not sure if this is a dream team, but it is a team”. I’m incredibly fickle. These guys were lifesavers when the shoot began. Most were based […]

James: I can’t remember what draft I was on at this stage. The script was pretty solid already but we were tweaking it some observations that we’d taken into consideration during casting. I was struggling to take the script beyond the 90 pages, which in hindsight was a bad sign. […]

James: Labour won the General Election for a third time and I got excited about moving to Ireland.Gabby: Utterly disappointed, but not surprised

James: I’m dead on my feet at this stage. I really struggle with casting and it was made unbearable with the sickness. Apologies to anybody who thought I wasn’t very pleasant at the sessions!Gab and I soon noticed our predicament at the end of the final session. We had to […]

James: The Sunday was the quieter of the the two sessions held at the Strongroom Studios in Shoreditch. The most poignant moment of the day was meeting Marius De Vries outside the studio and asking if he could let us in to use the toilet. Gab & I have such […]

James: I remember being hideously unwell and tanked up on ibruprofen for our first casting session. We’d hired some really dank studio space in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, and the alarm kept going off every time someone opened the front door. Gabby: No James was not at his best. […]

Gabby: Armed with over 350 CVS we quickly sifted out those who weren’t appropriate. We were left with a fairly big ‘maybe’ pile and a very modest ‘yes’ pile. We wanted to try and audition a mix of people who would fit together as a family unit, so we laid […]

Gabby: We wrote a brief synopsis of the film, and character breakdown, and I then posted ads in PCR, on Shootingpeople, Castnet, and Talent Circle.It was nerve racking but really quiet exciting. James and myself had cast together on a number of times before. We were confident in our ability […]

James: Yeah, so just as soon as we start, I head to Morocco. Needless to say, this puts a bit of a stop on Peppermint things temporarily…