Since 2013, Bafta Breakthrough has paired upcoming stars with established mentors.
Alumni such as Rose Ayling-Ellis and Susan Wokoma share what it was like to meet their heroes, the best piece of advice they’ve received, and how they’re managing their rising fameor many of the people coming through Bafta’s unassuming front door today, it will feel as though they have arrived at a school reunion. There are old friends to greet and catch up with and familiar corridors to walk down, while each new room they enter holds memories of a life-changing and formative time.
I think when you feel like you belong, you start thinking about what you’re capable of, what you can contribute. If you don’t really belong somewhere, you stay in your box. But if you feel like, “Yeah, OK, IHaving got his start playing “Gang Leader” in an episode of Casualty,When I started out, there were only really two people I wanted to speak to: either David Oyelowo or Denzel . And I think David was more accessible! He’s been incredible and he’s become a friend.
Then last year, because of Bafta Breakthrough, I found myself presenting Kate Winslet with a Bafta. I was like: “My child self would kick me if I didn’t tell her.” So backstage afterwards I said: “Kate, I hope you don’t mind, but seeing you in Titanic was so important to me … ” And then she started getting emotional and it felt like a full-circle moment. Like, “Now I’ve madeBafta put me in touch with Alice Seabright and she was the one who said I’d got a writer in me.
When I came into this acting thing, there was never someone I could say: “That’s me in 10 years.” Probably the closest, but he’s a different ethnicity, is Riz Ahmed. So that was something I kept saying when I joined Bafta Breakthrough. I did meet someone who I am still in close contact with and is now like an older brother/mentor: Yann Demange. To have Bafta connect you puts everyone at ease.
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