Finding your voices

Thanks in large part to Backer’s Bafta connections, The Bradwell Conspiracy boasts a star-studded cast, including Assassin’s Creed Origins actor Abubakar Salim as the voice of the AI guide, and Jonathan Ross, who lends his distinctive tones to the induction’s narrator. The role of Dr Amber Randall was a long casting process, Backer says: “She needed to be funny, she needed be authoritative. Holly and I were so clear about the character that we were like, ‘How are we going to find this person that’s so in our heads?’” When Rebecca LaChance walked in for the last audition of the second casting call, however, they knew they had their actor. “She walked in and read the first few lines, and I was like, ‘Holy shit!’ It was such a relief.”