Exclusive: The Collection and Gavin & Stacey star Melanie Walters and Sanditon actress Kayleigh-Paige Rees have been cast in UK coming-of-age drama Faulty Roots, which will mark the debut of writer/director Ella Greenwood.
Set in Somerset, England, the movie follows two teens with different genetic conditions who are forced to form a friendship. Rees will play the lead character of Lola, a teen with depression, and Walters, who can currently be seen in the BBC adaptation of The Snow Spider books, will play her mother Susan. Filming is set to take place next year in South West England.
Pic is adapted from Greenwood’s short of the same name. The director is producing through her Broken Flames Productions with Raspberry Films, which is run by Kayleigh-Paige Rees with George Perry.
Walters is repped by Katie Threlfall Associates. Rees by Bba Management.
“I want to give people a better understanding of...
Set in Somerset, England, the movie follows two teens with different genetic conditions who are forced to form a friendship. Rees will play the lead character of Lola, a teen with depression, and Walters, who can currently be seen in the BBC adaptation of The Snow Spider books, will play her mother Susan. Filming is set to take place next year in South West England.
Pic is adapted from Greenwood’s short of the same name. The director is producing through her Broken Flames Productions with Raspberry Films, which is run by Kayleigh-Paige Rees with George Perry.
Walters is repped by Katie Threlfall Associates. Rees by Bba Management.
“I want to give people a better understanding of...
- 7/14/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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