You were right the woman was the better. Main point I tried to make is that peoples own opinions of them selves often are miles away from reality. We do quite a few short films now to show people just what they are really like on screen! Many still think they are great - to quote one of the poor actors in BLITZ "but I've never done period before" sure deportment lessons may have made a difference but any actor should easily be able to act in any period in time. More recently we have opened up our training school for children to young adults as there doesn't seem to be many schools for adults these days - the odd workshop but nothing ongoing in the UK at least. Given we film much of their work and post it on the internet for them to see later it seems to be working quite well now. See
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