Daniel Kaluuya in Cass

July 29th, 2008

Daniel’s new movie will be out this coming Friday he plays the younger version of Cass, the trailer below contains some scenes with Daniel in.

Cass Movie via Skins Online

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Skins on This Morning - lol

March 31st, 2008

Skins This Morning
by UnrealityTV

Thanks to Unreality TV for the video

Skinsonline have got a few screen caps:

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The Hunt For the Next Tony

March 29th, 2008

E4’s teen drama Skins, a guilty pleasure if ever there was one, had some dramatic news of its own for fans today - the original cast is to be dumped in favour of an all new lineup for next year’s third series.

The show’s co-creator Bryan Elsley says that as this series ends with the cast going off to university it wouldn’t be possible to keep on following them and that in future, the show will operate in two year arcs with new casts.
The idea kind of makes sense - there is nothing worse than when a drama tries to keep on following characters when they have split up and dispersed from their home turf. The OC, Dawson’s Creek, anyone?

So the hunt is on for a new Tony, Maxxie, Jal and Cassie. One open audition has already been held in Bristol, where the show is set, which attracted 1,500 16- to 18-year-olds. A second is planned for London in April.

The team’s producers have said that while series three will focus on a new lineup, some old faces may still pop up. However, and I’m not sure if this is much of a secret among fans anymore, one of the main cast doesn’t make it to the end of this run. It is a bit of a shocker. Enough said.
As well as hunting for fresh acting talent, the show has also been a hub for new writers and series three will further expand this, with more episodes being written by first-time young scribes.

As a mark of what the show can do for fresh writing talent, Monday sees the premiere of an episode written by the show’s youngest writer, 18-year-old Daniel Kaluuya, who also plays ‘posh Kenneth’.

The episode is a powerful one, dealing with character Jal’s reaction to the news that she is pregnant in a storyline arc that carries over into a particularly dramatic, and sad, episode nine.

Kaluuya, who still lives at home with his mum in north London, has been part of the Skins writing group since the first series and joined via the Hampstead youth theatre where he wrote several short plays. He has also racked up a number of acting credits, including the BBC’s Shoot The Messenger and Mitchell and Webb, and ITV1’s Whistleblowers.

In the short film above, Kaluuya charts his writing process from putting pen to paper, to the Skins script meeting, to the read-through, to seeing his work on screen.

SOURCE: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2008/03/skins_youngest_writer_gets_his.html

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