‘I trusted a lot of people, and the wrong people, and I shouldn’t have’: Charlotte Kirk on navigating Hollywood
In Christmas & Chaos, Kirk plays Sadie, a pop star in search of a hit – or, to be more precise, three hits for a new musical by an impresario (a comedic Jason Isaacs who only appears on screen via video call).
Key points
- All they knew was that “this was a Christmas movie, these two have got a deadline to make these hit songs and maybe there’ll be some kind of romance.
- She has just a couple of weeks to come up with something with handsome-and-heartbroken composer (Ben McGregor).
- And then it became something else, which is even more interesting.” Continue reading...
Kirk, who also produced the film, approached Jamie Adams, director of several low-budget British films, including Black Mountain Poets, intrigued by his regular use of improvisation.
They worked out the story together, says Kirk, but made it without a script.
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