LIFE IN FILM

Chin Han has acted in the world of Mortal kombat, the MCU and DC. Over the years Chin Han has worked with the very best. - We chat about working with Christopher Nolan on the 'Dark Knight ', sharing the screen with legends, including Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman and why you should never lie in an audition. Not forgetting his new show for Disney + ' American born Chinese '. (Th...

Sasha's acting career started when she was spotted on spring break by director Andrea Arnold , she was plucked off the beach and cast in the lead role in the critically acclaimed ' American Honey ' which went on to win the highly prestigious Jury Price at Cannes Film Festival. Since then she has join the MCU with 'Loki' , fought alongside David Harbour's in ' Hell Boy &...

Casting Director Lucy Bevan has worked with the greats, Oliver Stone , Steven Spielberg , Alfonso Cuarón the list is endless. - We are sponsored by ⁠⁠⁠⁠BetterHelp⁠⁠⁠⁠ providing you access to the largest online therapy service in the world. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Get 10% off⁠⁠⁠⁠ your first month at ⁠⁠⁠⁠betterhelp.com/lifeinfilm⁠⁠⁠⁠ - We chat about her casting Robert Pattinson as 'The Batman', How Lily James w...

American actor Shea Whigham has an outrageous list of credits including ' Joker ', ' True Detective ', ' Silver Linings Playbook ', ' Wolf of Wall Street ' and he's also been in multiple ' Fast and Furious ' instalments and that's just the tip of the iceberg. - We are sponsored by ⁠BetterHelp⁠ providing you access to the largest online therapy servic...

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 continue...

French film director Louis Leterrier started his film career with 'The Transporter' starring Jason Statham, you may know him for 'The Incredible Hulk' or star studded 'Now You See Me' or perhaps the latest in the 'Fast & Furious' Saga. - We are sponsored better BetterHelp to provide you access to the largest online therapy service in the world. Get 10% off your...

Sam is a former boy wizard, playing Albus Potter in the hugely successful 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ' in the West End and Broadway over a period of three years. Now he's part of the world of 'Bridgerton ' in the Netflix smash hit ' Queen Charlotte' . - We are sponsored better ⁠BetterHelp⁠ to provide you access to the largest online therapy service in the world....

David is an actor who's been on an incredible run, with a string of Netflix hits including ' The Sandman' , ' The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself ' and the the critically acclaimed ' The diplomat '. Along the way hes worked with acclaimed films makers such as Alex Garland , Christopher Nolan and the Wachowski's . - We are sponsored better BetterHelp to provide y...

Tony Curran⁠ has been in the been acting for 40 years,  We talk about what its like going from being a postman, to small tv roles in ' ⁠Grange Hill⁠ ' to being thrown onto Hollywood blockbuster's ' ⁠Pearl Harbor⁠ ' and ' ⁠Gladiator⁠ '. Why his mum playfully hit ⁠Sean Connery⁠ and his MOST EMBARRASSING moment with ⁠Dustin Hoffman⁠ . From working with ⁠Spielburg⁠ to playi...

We are now partnering with and sponsored by BetterHelp to provide you access to the largest online therapy service in the world. Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/lifeinfilm/ - Dexter's acting career took off when he was only 10 years old when he starred as Baby Face in Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone', this was closely followed by appearances in 'The Long Good Friday' & 'The Elep...

Jennifer Euston is a 3 time Emmy Award Winning Casting Director of Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black”, HBO’s “Girls” and the Steven Spielberg produced miniseries “The Pacific”. We talk about the dos and don’ts actors should know before auditioning with her, how she worked her way up from a Casting Associate on movies like “Zoolander” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” to becoming a successful Ca...

Lesley Paterson ,  a 5 times World Champion Triathlete who has become a BAFTA winning script writer for Netflix's wonderful ' All Quiet on the Western Front'. Having bought the rights to the best selling book, over the course of 16 years she relentlessly pitched the idea of the movie but no one was interested in a German language film about World War 1, without a star.  She remortgaged h...

Jeffrey Pierce , has recently been on our screens in HBO's hugely popular ' The Last of Us ' if you're one of the millions of people watching the show you might also recognise his voice. Jeffrey has lent his voice to many computer games over the years including ' Call of Duty ', ' Medal of Honor ' and ' The Last of Us ' part I & II but in the game he voices Tommy.  -  A real veteran...

Hollywood producer Kevin Misher worked his way up from the mail room to Creative Executive at Tri-Star Pictures, to president of production at Universal Pictures , to created his own production company, Misher Films . Over the decades of his career he has over seen projects such as   Erin Brockovich ,  The Mummy , Meet the Parents , The Fast and the Furious , and The Bourne Identity .&nb...

English actress Known for the multi award winning 'Birdman', Hollywood blockbuster 'Oblivion', future cult classic 'Mandy' and more recently 'Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical' and her Oscar Nominated performance in the brilliant ‘To Leslie’. We talk about Her experience of going from ITV’s 'Doc Martin' to working with Tom Cruise. Her love of books, what she's reading now. And why she feels calm in...

A character actor of many faces, he's part of the Harry Potter, Marvel, Jurassic World and Hunger Games universes, He's collaborated with Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, The Russo Brothers, Sam Mendes and James Mangold.  You may no him as Capote or perhaps Hitchcock or maybe as house else Dobby... There are too many credits of screen and stage to mention, they include. Tinker Tailor Soldier S...

Sam is an actor best known for playing Mark Tuello in the multi award winning ' The Handmaid's Tale ' and Joel Graham in the hugely popular series ' Parenthood '. He's worked with some of the greats including Clint Eastwood multiply times on 'American Sniper' and 'Blood Work'.  And Paul Thomas Adderson on 'Inherent Vice'. Not only that he wrote and directed his first feature 'Take Me Home' in...

Manuel Puro's career as a casting director started with a dozen hand written letters accompanied by a KitKat and a note saying  ‘Since I’ve supplied the KitKat, you could give me a break’. One of the people that replied was casting director Jeremy Zimmermann (of 'Robin Hood Prince of Thieves' & 'Willow' fame). He assisted Jeremy on many projects including Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Hell Boy II’ and soo...

LIFE IN FILM with Tom Bateman On Spotify Now An actor with an impressive credit list including Kenneth Branagh's 'Murder on the Orient Express'  which stars some of the biggest names in Hollywood including Johnny Depp. Ron Howard's 'Thirteen Lives' based on the incredible true story and he's even taken on Liam Neeson in Hans Peter Moland's 'Cold Pursuit’. Other credits include, Netflix's 'Behind H...

Writer/Director Matthew Gentile has over come the huge feet of getting his feature film debut off the ground, which he has not only directed but has written from speck.  ' American Murderer ' stars Tom Pelphrey who gives a monster lead performance, with a supporting cast including Ryan Phillippe and Jacki Weaver . Based on the shocking true story of Jason Dereck brown , American fugitive want...

Theo Rossi is best known for ' Son's of Anarchy ', or perhaps Marvel's ' Luke Cage ' he's a self professed character actor that has an abundance of diverse credits. But did you know he started out as an extra? working his way up with bit parts in ' Malcom in the Middle ', ' Lost ' and ' Grey's Anatomy '. More recently he has been in Zack Snyde r's ' Army of the Dead ' and Netflix's ' True Story '...

Michael has directed some of the most popular shows on TV including,  ' Better Call Saul ', ' House of Cards ', ' 13 Reasons Why' and ' Billions '. not forgetting my personal Favorite the hugely underrated MAA series ' Kingdom '. We chat about him being Brit in LA, how it all started and his hugely power feature film debut 'To Leslie ' Starring an incredible cast include the transformative An...

Peter has worked on some of the most iconic movies ever made, he started his career in the late 1960's, one of his first jobs was focus pulling on Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy', he followed this up with 'The Omen', 'Star Wars' and 'Flash Gordon'. Moving onto operating camera his career went from strength to strength, with movies like 'Richard III', 'Gosford park', 'The Borrowers' and working with Ri...

Our 1st guest is actor Jefferson White best known for playing the beloved Jimmy Hurdstrom in the number 1 show in U.S. Yellowstone alongside Kevin Costner. His first job was on FX's 'The Americans' he followed this up with appearances in abc's 'How to get away with murder' with Viola Davis and David Fincher's 'House of Cards'.  Our 2nd guest Julian Higgins started his career writing and directing...

Hugh's first few lines in a film came in 'Frankenstein' (1994) Directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Robert De Niro. He also had a small role in 'Tomorrow Never dies' (1997), but he really hit his stride when he appeared in 'Notting Hill' alongside Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts (1999). following this up with 'Iris' with Judy Dench (2001), more recent credits include 'The Monuments Men' with Geor...