A mechanic and a financial team leader are among the first-time actors in Shane Meadows' new series.
Stevie Binns had never considered acting, but now plays a member of the Cragg Vale Coiners gang in The Gallows PoleDirector Shane Meadows has made his first period drama, about a little-known 18th Century criminal mastermind. The cast includes established and first-time actors, from a mechanic to a financial manager.
When the open casting call for The Gallows Pole went out in 2021, he and casting director Shaheen Baig were overwhelmed. Meadows says he watched more than 5,000 tapes himself.Binns was one. Charlotte Ockelton was another. She opened a hair salon two months before Covid but was forced to close it and lost her house, and her daughter had to go and live with her father.
"And people that you've grown up watching like Thomas Turgoose, Michael Socha, Adam Fogerty, Sophie McShera - you're looking at all them around you and thinking, what am I doing here?"David Hartley, played by Michael Socha, is guided by visions of men with stag-skull headsabout "King" David Hartley, who led an audacious large-scale currency racket by clipping the edges off gold coins and melting down the trimmings to make new money.
"I still suffer with impostor syndrome a little bit, so it was quite out of my comfort zone," he admits. "But the characters weren't, and the story wasn't." "What happened, at the end of the day, was criminal. The older generations probably didn't want to celebrate that. "And that's the way I like to look at it. I think he could be more a Robin Hood than a Dick Turpin. He's robbing from the rich to help the poor, rather than just taking all the money for himself."
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