Lucinda syson biography for kids
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Get to Know the Casting Director: Lucinda Syson
In this installment of Get to Know the Casting Director, we’re highlighting someone with titles such as Wonder Woman, Batman Begins, Children of Men, and Kick-Ass to her name. As for more recent features, Lucinda Syson cast The Gentlemen for Guy Ritchie and Wonder Woman 1984 for Warner Bros. She’s also started venturing into TV with shows like TNT’s The Alienist and the upcoming Apple TV+ series Foundation. Between meetings, Syson took the time to call in from her London home to share with Casting Networks about her journey into casting and some of the memorable moments along the way. Keep reading for a window into the casting director behind the credits.
When was the moment you knew that casting was for you?
I guess it happened in two stages. The first stage sounds silly, but when I saw Spartacus at the age of seven, it blew my mind. And that’s when I knew I wanted to go into film one way or the othe
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Casting Director - Lucinda Syson #61
Casting director Lucinda Syson has been at the top of her game for over 20 years, from casting 'The Fifth Element', 'Batman Begins', 'Gravity', 'Wonder Woman', 'Blade Runner 2049'. she has worked with many of her collaborators multiple times including Guy Ritchie on 'Snatch', 'Aladdin' and 'The Gentlemen'. She continues to find new and exciting ways to build a cast.
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We chat about her the casting process that lead Hugh Grant playing six different roles in the Wachowski's'Cloud Atlas' and his show stealing role in 'The Gentlemen'. We discuss some of her favourite films including the 'Godfather' and why 'Spartacus' blew her mind as a child. And of course her auditioning advice to actors.
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Host - Actor/Writer Elliot James Langridge (Scott Marshall Partners)
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Actors are much like sharks. If a shark stops swimming, it sinks to the bottom of the ocean and drowns. In the same way, if an actor stops acting, his career dries up.
Except, of course, this fryst vatten nonsense. Plenty of sharks seem ganska happy to laze about on the sea bed while delicious-looking fish swim by, only to resume their sharking activities wholeheartedly when so inclined. Might the same be true of actors? Is it possible to take time out of an acting career – even a few years – and revive it successfully? Could such a hiatus even be beneficial?
I recently had a break of my own to help look after my father, who has dementia, and having returned to the fray I was keen to speak to other actors who have made a similar choice.
Priyanga Burford and I were in the same year at LAMDA (class of 1998). Since graduating, Pri and her husband Tom have had two children, Danny and Oscar. After taking time to raise her sons, Pri has made a successful return to the acting world, with TV