Fiona Samuel: Marching to success…
Posted on 10 December 2012
Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside
Fiona Samuel has found success as an actor, writer and director. Her first acting job was in long-running soap
Close to Home, and she followed that with appearances in a number of film and TV shows.
Samuel’s greatest passion, however, is for writing and directing. She was the creative force behind
The Marching Girls, and has written scripts for shows such as
Outrageous Fortune,
The Almighty Johnsons and
Rude Awakenings. Samuel also wrote and directed award-winning one-off dramas
Piece of My Heart, and
Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield.
In this ScreenTalk,
Samuel talks about:
- Being too theatrical on the set of Close to Home
- Creating the concept for The Marching Girls
- Discovering her scriptwriting skills needed an overhaul
- Adding a prostitute to the original story in Home Movie
- How a surprising statistic led her to create the documentary Virginity
- Taking 10 years to get Piece of My Heart funded
- The reasons she picked the main actresses
- Bringing a fresh but authentic feel to Bliss
- Wishing she’d had even more opportunities in her career
This video is
available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a
Creative Commons licence.
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