Dont assume that people doing amazing work (whatever that may be) know it & dont need to be told. Reach out & tell them. We live in a country so quick to jump on the negative. These small acts of generosity and recognition can mean so much 💚💫
Completely overwhelmed by the messages about mum. Knowing how much she adored her craft as a dialect coach, i’ve been so moved by the words of actors she taught over the years talking about the confidence she instilled & the careers she shaped. I am so proud to be her daughter X
A year this week since we lost mum. Still impossible to comprehend & sets the rollercoster of grief on overdrive in a way people warn you about & I naively thought wouldnt be as brutal as it is. Bellowing a big I love you to the skies from my heart ❤️🙏
Beautiful mum who dedicated her life to teaching, to actors, who inspired me to work in this divine, agonizing, frustating, inspiring industry. I miss you every day. Heartbreaking to see you on screen at
@bafta
& not beside us on the sofa. We love you forever and always 💔
I wasnt prepared for the exhaustion that comes with grief. Just doing basic things- social interactions with people I love, concentration, basic tasks take their toll in ways I didnt anticipate. After my first day back in the office, I dialed my mum’s number…
It's 3 years since we lost mum. Grief shifts in ways that seem unfathomable at the beginning. The day to day gets more manageable and yet the pain of losing someone you love stays with you every day. This video gives me so much joy x
Today is the 3rd anniversary of Joan’s death. Waving with Gaby McKee, her 2 move signature dance with
@OliviaGranted
, Scottish singalongs with Patrick Doyle, John Hannah, Joanna Roth & Annie Lennox, her Spirit remains indomitable, our love unbreakable, our loss, unfathomable ❤️❤️
I started my career as an in-house runner for Working Title in 2011. 9 years and a lot of hard work later, am pinching myself & counting my lucky stars to share my first Casting Director credit with Lucy Bevan on this wonderful project 💕
We need to normalize being able to say: how you’re behaving towards me &/or how you’re speaking to me is unnacceptable in a professional environment, especially one so hierarchical as film/tv. Basic respect and accountability need to be the norm.
Everyone’s grief is different. Weekly therapy through mum’s diagnosis & since losing her has given me tools to cope, but the biggest gift has been friends talking about mum, sharing stories & keeping her part of the conversation. She stays vivid & with me & I’m so grateful.
Mum sewed memory cushions every year & yesterday this one caught my eye as Cate Blanchett
@jes_chastain
& Brendan Gleeson all got golden globe noms & she would have been so happy. Her work made her so fulfilled & it takes the air out of my lungs that she’s no longer here.
This Christmas, I'm donating to
@longfieldcare
@BigGive
who gave my mum the most exemplary care in her final weeks of life. I will be ever grateful to them. Please consider donating to give other families the opportunity to keep their loved ones at home ❤️
Celebrating 7 years working at
@CastingLucy
& 11 years working in the film industry. I started out as a runner for 3 years & loved watching actors work. Now I'm lucky enough to call myself a Casting Director. So grateful to work alongside these amazing women x
We are zoom auditioning and receiving tapes from so many talented actors at the moment & I never stop thinking-taste is subjective- but being well prepared and willing to throw your hat in the ring can change your life tomorrow or 3 years down the road.
#casting
how much I loved her and how much I admired her. Thinking of all the people who’ve recently lost someone and who did & didnt get that chance. Sending love and strength. Kindness is the greatest gift x
We started casting
#TheBatman
in October 2019 & finished March 2021. So much hard work from so many brilliant actors & hundreds of crew members. For a huge Batman geek this was a dream come true. Second viewing here we come ❤️
@CastingLucy
#cindytolan
@KatieBrydon6
Not sure ‘proud’ can do this wonderful moment in time justice. Such a fantastic afternoon at the
#SpiritAwards
where
@cyefm
won Best Supporting Actor
@RichardEGrant
& Best Screenplay. Time to party 🎉🎉🎉
My first film as a Casting Director 🙏 shared with
@CastingLucy
❤️ absolute dream come true and we get to see it in a cinema! Bravo
@Jemima_Khan
so proud of this amazing cast.
Its inconceivable we’ve had our last conversation, joke, fight, I’ve asked the last piece of advice. So many people are going through so much. Be kind, be thoughtful & take that breather before you snap. The biggest gift is that her illness made me tell her in no uncertain terms
You've been waiting over a decade for this. The teaser for Masters of the Air is here.
Austin Butler
Callum Turner
Anthony Boyle
Nate Mann
Barry Keoghan
Raff Law
The 9-part series event premieres January 26.
Huge thank you to
@longfieldcare
🙏 who made an unbearable time easier. Staff are angels of kindness and constantly reminded us of the good in the world amongst our family’s heartbreak. Absolutely exemplary. X
Great article & lovely words from
@RichardEGrant
in the
@DailyMailUK
Thank you so much for the recognition you have given our Longfield Hospice at Home carers. It's an absolute privilege every day to help patients & families across Gloucestershire. 💙
As we wind down for xmas, so grateful to all the actors & agents for their patience this year, for the stop/starts, the unavoidable 11th hour requests that have had us all working out of hours in these strange times. Small acts of kindness have made such a difference.
BAFTA winners Barry Keoghan and Austin Butler will team up for their next project, a $200M limited series titled
#MastersOfTheAir
.
Out this year on Apple TV+
Anxiety knows how stupid & irrational it is & how to consume you all at the same time. It makes you feel bad at your job, life, friendships. It doesn’t respond to get a grip & don’t worry. It can look calm from the outside. Be kind & look out for others ❤️
#WorldMentalHealthDay
One of those weeks where you feel completely underwater. Where mistakes are inevitable. Where small acts of kindness/understanding make all the difference to your day. Productions / agents / casting / actors are working so hard to do their best. Avail at all hours takes its toll.
Pinch me moment-first Casting Director credit with
#lucybevan
on this wonderful film. We’re so lucky to have so many fantastic dramatic & comic talents in parts big & small. Thank you to everyone who auditioned & made this process such a joy over this bleak winter! X
So proud of the amazing cast of
@Barbie
who shine on screen💓💓💓💓💓💓 this one is a real pinch me moment. Working alongside Allison Jones
@CastingLucy
Emily Buntyn &
@lucyadownes
putting together this ensemble was heaven. Treat yourself to this one💓
Casting / Agent’ing / AD’ing / Scheduling in the time of Covid are like trying to row a boat oarless in stormy-no wait-sunny-no wait-hurricane struck sea. Juggling with balls that may or may not land back in your hands. Solidarity with everyone doing their best 🙏💫
It’s
#Barbie
release day in the UK & we are so excited for everyone to see this incredible cast on screen having an absolute blast 💗a huge thanks to all the amazing Barbie and Kens who auditioned & made this process so difficult- it was an embarassment of riches 💗
@CastingLucy
fyi-You’re not shit if you’re not working/cant work. You’re not shit at your job if you are lucky enough to be working. Everyone is struggling. Reach out to those u love
#BlueMonday
is a real f**cker 💙compassion has a fine knack of lightening the load 💙
This view always takes my breath away & is a natural reset, especially when grief reshapes the ground beneath my feet. The unfathomable fact that mum is no longer here- to people watch- to be brutally witty-to see this beautiful view. I close my eyes;
birds, gentle water…reset x
From the executive producers of Band of Brothers and The Pacific, the official Masters of the Air trailer is here.
The 9-part series event premieres January 26.
Austin Butler’s performance in
@ElvisMovie
is electric-set the cinema alight- fantastic. His physicality & voice work are extraordinary. May the awards rain down. So excited to see his peformance in
#mastersoftheair
next year. Incredibly hard working, & charming. A star is born✨
Starting out as a runner on film sets you get to see the very worst & best of people. Happy birthday to the queen of kindness, politeness & punctuality who was every much as dreamy as you’d dream she’d be. Queen Meryl 🎉🎉🎉
Celebrating
#lucybevancasting
Artios Award Nomination for Best Casting: Studio or Independent Drama for
#TheDig
we had such a wonderful time working on this film 💓🙏
Everyone is going through their own experience in this lockdown. Be kind ❤️ be polite ❤️ be mindful ❤️ you are not a burden ❤️ keep going ❤️ & if you’re lonely or sad, pick up the phone to the people you’d hope would call you in the same situation- they want you to call❤️
#bekind
It’s been a pretty shitty year (which I’m ending with covid 🥳). What has been your professional highlight however small that meant a huge amount to you?. Would love to hear some things you’re proud of whether it be a self-tape or just keeping going through this madness! X
We are so so proud to have worked on this beautiful film. Dream Producer Gaby Tana, Dream Director Simon Stone & the wonderful British cast that bring the story of the dig of Sutton Hoo alive in such a moving way.
#TheDig
is out today
@NetflixUK
#lucybevancasting
@KatieBrydon6
💕
met
@MadeleineRGray
for a
@SpotlightUK
1-1 during lockdown. A few months later we cast her as Injured Woman in
@TheBatman
A tiny part on the page that needed an actor to deliver an emotional beat at the end of the film. We cast over 80 British actors & proud of all of them ❤️🙏
Back in Autumn’19, we got to audition so many fantastic actors in the room for parts big & small. Some got roles, & a lot didnt, but it put so many new faces on our radar. Working on 🦇 has been a blast. Now here we are in March’21, finally wrapped
@KatieBrydon6
#lucybevancasting
One of those pinch yourself weeks at work where you’re so aware of how lucky you are to do the job you do. If I could tell my doubtful, lost, 20 year old self that ten years later this is where I’d be, I’d be dancing 🎉
A very happy galentines day to my wonderful work wives 💋❤️❤️
@CastingLucy
@emily_brockmann
@KatieBrydon6
@lucyadownes
our relationship has successfully survived the pandemic, intense periods of stress and we can still make each other laugh. Count myself very lucky
Our family are all rooting for you today
@jes_chastain
🙏 mum so adored working with you on so many projects over the years and would be so proud and thrilled for you 💗💗💗
First look at Kate Winslet in Ellen Kuras’ ‘LEE’ also starring Alexander Skarsgård, Josh O’Connor, Marion Cotillard and Andy Samberg.
It centers on Lee Miller, who traded a glamorous career as a model for a dangerous career as a WWII photographer.
We had a wonderful time casting these brilliant actors; Carey Mulligan,Ralph Fiennes,Ben Chaplin,Lily James,Johnny Flynn,Archie Barnes,Arsher Ali,Monica Dolan,Ken Stott,James Dryden,Robert Wilfort,Danny Webb, Joe Hurst,Bronwyn James,Paul Ready,Peter McDonald to name a few.
“From the first human handprint on a cave wall, we’re part of something continuous.”
Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, and Lily James star in THE DIG, coming to Netflix globally on January 29.
Safe to say the biggest cast we’ve ever assembled has been keeping us busy 🎉 dream team to work with & we have got to audition so many new faces. So grateful to all the agents who have been verrrrry patient with scheduling/everything in the time of covid 🙏
#lucybevancasting
When you hear Casting is finally being recognised by
@BAFTA
🎉🎉🎉 so grateful for the perseverance and determination of the casting directors who fought for this and made it possible ❤️❤️❤️
Casting Directors aren't being recognised at the
@OlivierAwards
despite their incredible contribution and skill set. They are an intrinsic part of the success of a production. Actors please show your support.
And that’s a wrap on ‘Cats’. Enormous amount of work over the past year and a half. We’ve been so privileged to audition SO many talented dancers and performers ❤️ the cast is insane 🎉🎉🎉
#lucybevancasting
After a week of auditions/lots of self tape viewing, approvals, offers, insane turnarounds, last minute changes & an ever growing to do list, feeling slightly like a crazed hamster but grateful to agents/actors/2nd ADs, producer & directors assistants who make the madness fun 🤪
I didn't love
#Persuasion
but I did love
@RichardEGrant
as the vain Sir Elliot. He has officially joined the ranks as one of the great Jane Austen fathers, which I write about here on
@Collider
Such a privilege to get to audition well prepared, talented actors for a living, who have to have the skin of a rhino to persevere. Never take it for granted.
Frocked up for the
@BAFTA
awards. Such a privilege to watch the first ever Casting Award awarded! Huge congratulations to Shayna Markowitz for her Bafta for Joker 🎉
In our final weeks of casting an absolutely mammoth project. Approx 300 characters, and well over a year of auditions and we’re nearly there….
@_LucyDownes
had a real baptism of fire into the workload of casting & became my second brain. Grateful doesnt cover it 💓🎉👏🏻
Permed ‘wig’ for a play back in 1993 and ecstatic to have my little
@ShmiviaGrant
now all grown up and taking a magic carpet ride by my side to the Oscars, 24 years later! 🛫✈️🇺🇸
John Sessions was so kind to me when i worked as a runner. You never forget the small acts of kindness, the person that says thank you, remembers your name, does funny impressions, when you’re on the first wrung of you career ladder. Rest in peace X
Office end of term zoom. Sad to not all be together in person but grateful to be working with such amazing women during a really challenging year, both mentally and professionally, as we all learn the ropes of the new normal 🎄💛 Have a safe & happy christmas
#lucybevancasting
To all professionals in the film, television, entertainment and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. Copy the text and post a pic
@emily_brockmann
#lucybevancasting
Peaceful walk along the Thames this morning. I’m terrible for holding my breath in times of stress and anxiety. Cold, sunny mornings like this make me breathe and appreciate the small things 💕
Never a bad reminder on such a fuelled day. Look after yourself ❤️❤️❤️ so many people are finding it brutal at the moment. Keep the loving, compassionate, good people in your life close and dont open the door for the toxic ones ❤️❤️❤️
We were so privileged to audition so many incredible actors for
#thedig
🙏 It’s not often that the energy in the room changes.
#archiebarnes
was an extraordinary talent from the off & completely in the moment. Auditions like that make our job the easiest & the most exciting.
So devastated for the
#Batgirl
cast & crew. It takes hundreds of peoples passion & time away from their families and for it not to ever get a platform to be seen is so disappointing, especially after how brutal the pandemic has been for freelance workers.
Had a blast supporting
@RichardEGrant
at the
#RiseofSkywalker
premiere last night. Loved loved loved the film. I cheered and I sobbed. What a fantastic ensemble by
#ninagold
everything I could have wanted as a huge fan of
@starwars