Self Made

In 2007, Gillian Wearing placed an advert in newspapers, online, in job centres and elsewhere. It read: Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character. Call Gillian. Of the hundreds of people who replied, seven chosen through an extended process of auditions, interviews and workshops ended up appearing in Self Made. Of those seven, five in particular use the acting technique known as Method to delve into their own memories, impulses, anxieties, fears, fantasies and inner resources to create a series of individual performance vignettes, their personal end scenes, that reveal with particular intensity and clarity who they really are deep down or who, in another version of their lives, they might easily have been.