Hannah (Cassie) wrote on the Skins blog:

“These days, at the moment, we are filming my episode (along with the finale), which is absolutely my favourite time of doing a series of Skins. Being at work all day, every day, and then coming home too tired to do anything other than eat, learn your lines and then go to bed ready to get up at 6 the next morning is, quite honestly, the most glorious thing.

Directing this, my episode 9, is Charles Martin. Although we all tend to get on really well with all the directors we’ve had, on both series, you do tend to form a slightly closer relationship with the director who does your episode. I definitely remember Kaya referring to Adam Smith, who directed episode 8 last year, as her director, and there’s quite a lot of accuracy in that (though of course he was also Larissa’s and Joe’s). So the person who directs your episode is going to be a very important part of your enjoyment of and success in working on it, and so obviously I wanted Charles Martin to be wonderful. And he is.

The fact that he won a Bafta the other weekend and brought it into work on my second day filming with him (I got to hold it – they’re very heavy) was certainly very impressive, but really is only the icing on the cake. I’m learning from an incredible amount and he’s kind of forcing me not to be so scared of the camera as I am. I generally have this tendency to sort of hide my face and find things to fiddle with because I get nervous, and I find it very hard to properly hold a gaze towards someone if the camera is in my peripheral vision. But he’s stopping me from doing that, and sometimes even putting the camera right in my face and really not letting me shy away from it. It’s so great to be taken out of my comfort zone and hopefully to give a better performance as a result.

I’m really really really enjoying this final block.”

Source: www.e4.com/skins