STORY OF SLAVERY IN 18TH-CENTURY HIGHLANDS TO CINEMA
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estranged brothers who knock over a pensioner and cover up the crime, with increasingly exasperating results as their whole family starts to unravel.
Moyo said: “I’ve worked with writer Neil Forsyth before, on Bob Servant Independent, and the script was so stylish – it’s dark, witty and full of twists and turns.
“What I love about the role of Tina is that she’s a bit of a mystery and not like any other character I’ve played before. She is very complex and emotional, she’s intelligent and funny and very intriguing.
“I’d like to be as confident as her. That’s another reason I was attracted to the role – she just says it as it is. She’s struck up this relationship with a married woman but the friendship has developed into a relationship and they finally become intimate. “She’s very confident and, if there’s something she wants, she’ll go out and get it. I’m quite an outgoing person but I wouldn’t say I’m so forward.” In between l ight ing up Scotland’s high- end dramas, she also appeared in the final series of Still Game, utilising her accent skills to play an American TV reporter.
She said: “I felt like I’d hit the jackpot. I filmed on the very last day of the entire series. I felt like a little bit of an imposter. It was an emotional time for Ford and Greg and the rest of the the feature film version – so keep watching guys but we had so much fun on set. this space.
“They were pulling pranks left, right and “Morayo discovered there were people centre and it was hard to keep a straight face of colour living in Scotland back in the and get a take without laughing. I feel lucky 18th century and this was news to us. This to have been a part of that.” was not something that was taught in the
Moyo is also appearing in the Demon Scottish school curriculum.
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Moyo said: “Morayo wrote it – she’s also “It was a real common thing and we an actor and director – and we set up our wanted to shine a light on this. And the own production company together called further we dug, the more information Lucid Dreamers, off the back of 1745. we revealed and we knew we had to tell a
“We premiered it at the Edinburgh story, put this out there and shine a light International Film Festival and we just on it. didn’t realise the kind of positive feedback “We’re not pointing the finger at anyone and reception we’d have received telling but, if the history of the past can’t be this story. acknowledged, how can we move forward
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