I am so happy to announce that I have been cast as Aaliyah in the film Resonant Bloom by Qinwei Hu and Jingjing Li.
Filming is underway in some beautiful locations like the Rose Theatre in Kingston where I get to live my dream of dancing on a big theatre stage. The film should be out later this year.
Big thanks to the producer, director, all the crew and my dancing partner Ruby.
Also another announcement – I am playing with my band Yavenirie Amok our last gig this summer in Biddle Bros in Hackney on the 18th of July. It’s a free entry so please come along if you fancy some original mystery rock music.
I’ve got a Patreon! And I am writing about my acting experiences of getting jobs on various projects and also giving a business of acting advice on how to get them, what steps to take when you are an unknown actor and what mistakes to avoid (which I didn’t :-).
Here is a snippet of the first of series of posts – whole article on 🔥PATREON.COM/ZUZATEHANU🔥 🔥Follow me me for more acting advice :-)🔥
This will be the first of many posts about how to get film roles when you are not a big actor with a big agent who has opportunities knocking at their door every day.
“I am not a big actress. Yet. I have skills and I have potential to do big things and many teachers and casting directors complemented my work. But I don’t have connections or famous family or anyone who could open the career door for me. I have to do it myself and I am working on it everyday. Because even if you are like me – working class, immigrant actor or actress with an accent, you can still get opportunities, you can get jobs and you can act, it’s just twice as hard. But you will if you really love it. I do, I would do anything to act a good part in a film or a play. But you need patience, persistence and hard work. And you need to find that place inside you where the love for acting lies and hold on to it, remind yourself daily why you are doing it. And always remember that moment when you are in a flow of performing and you feel so much alive!
Last week we had another great day of filming #DJKill by #AntonMakon . What a day!!! You can see on those behind the scenes pics that we were in a beautiful studio in @dalstonpier , we had fun but also were very focused and working hard!
I had a pleasure to play Kazimiera – the other one of my double role.
It was as always an honour to work with our amazing cast @carolineoakes1 @drama_cannon @arsandell @eliotjghello @trispretty and my partner in crime @romestewart99 and amazing crew Boyd and Dan
Another great day on set of #DJKILL playing EDITH, film directed by #AntonMakon with fantastic cast @drama_cannon @carolineoakes1 @kellyefthymiouactress and lovely crew Guy, Boyd, Eliot .
Zuza Tehanu 