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New ReelScotland video interviews

February found me putting together a handful of new video interviews for ReelScotland to promote a new film and a new Scottish play based on a film.

The 2012 Glasgow Film Festival finished tonight and one of the new films screened was Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy starring Scottish actor, Adam Sinclair. I was approached by the PR team behind the film in 2011 about interviewing Sinclair atop Edinburgh’s Oloroso restaurant which resulted in a video on Sinclair’s entry into acting and a second on Ecstasy:

The second pair of videos were created to promote new play An Appointment with the Wicker Man, based on the classic British horror film, The Wicker Man. I met with the play’s co-writer and star, Greg Hemphill, along with co-star Jimmy Chisholm during rehearsals, with both interviews now on YouTube:

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Putting the accent on Scottish film roles

This week’s Edinburgh Evening News column found me commenting on the new trailer for Guy Pearce’s upcoming sci-fi feature, Lockout, specifically the attempts by two of the actors to affect Scottish accents.

Was I wrong to pick on them? Or are the accents more impenetrable than the prison in space? Judge for yourself: