Self Made
2011 | 88m | English
Popularity: 0.7 (history)
| Director: | Gillian Wearing |
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| Writer: | Leo Butler |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 02, 2011 |
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| Director: | Gillian Wearing |
| Writer: | Leo Butler |
| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | filmmaking, therapy, woman director, method acting |
| Production Companies | Doc Society |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 27, 2026 Entered: Jul 28, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| 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 |
| Helen Coverdale | Stepmother |
| Andrew Tennant | Middle Class Husband |
| Angela Stephenson | Middle Class Wife |
| Adam Bird | Bully |
| Martin Forsyth | Bully |
| David Harbison | Bully |
| Michael Laing | Bully |
| Mike Martin | Bully |
| Dave Simmons | Bully |
| Daniel Spiller | Bully |
| Dave Watson | Self |
| Ali Pritchard | Brother 1 |
| Jacob Anderton | Brother 2 |
| Tor Clark | Claretta Petacci |
| Luca Matteo Zizzari | Self/Mercurio |
| Name | Job |
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| Gillian Wearing | Director |
| Leo Butler | Writer |
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