Samantha tells tales about her 堅い childhood

By BAZ BAMIGBOYE

Last updated at 18:06 07 March 2008


Award-winning actress Samantha Morton is to direct a film about her childhood - her first foray behind the camera.

"It's about 存在 fostered and growing up with other kids," Samantha told me. "It's something I've 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 調査する."

She has been working with screenwriter Tony Grisoni, who wrote the much under-率d Brothers Of The 長，率いる, on developing a screenplay about her childhood in Nottingham.

"The story will be fictionalised, but it's my story," she said. "The things that happened to me in care will be there, but I think it's easier to tell it if it's fictionalised, because I'm going to weave in other stories about other kids."

Samantha hopes to shoot the film, at 現在の 肩書を与えるd The Unloved, in September. The actress won a Golden Globe award this year for her powerful 描写 of Myra Hindley in Tom Hopper's Channel 4 film Longford, based on a script by Peter Morgan.

加える she has two Oscar 指名／任命s to her credit. Samantha once told me that いつかs she thinks of her childhood to enable her to 追加する a 公式文書，認める of poignancy or yearning to a character. I think it's that sense about her that often moves me when I watch her on 審査する.

Andrew Eaton, who runs 革命 Films with Michael Winterbottom, will produce The Unloved. He said he was impressed with Samantha's insight about her time in care. "She's 熱烈な about it and it's an important experience for her," Eaton told me.

Casting will start as soon as Grisoni's script has been 完全にするd. Samantha wasn't 確かな whether or not she'll take a small 役割 in the movie. Between now and the autumn, she may 行為／法令／行動する in one or two other films, as pre-生産／産物 work on The Unloved 進歩s.

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