These images are by the photographer Rankin and feature Emma Pierson and the actor David Leon.
The photoshoot was to illustrate an article in ES magazine about the feature film that Rankin directed(his first) called The Lives of the Saints
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Friday 16th February 2007 ES magazine interview.
Rankin, the photographer, is more used to a hushed studio and A-list models than a rough-and-ready film shot in Haringey. But the41-year-old Scotsman has pulled off a coup; making his first movie, a gangster Brit-flick called The Lives of the Saints, which came out last month. He directed the 96 minute feature with his long-time collaborator, director Chris Cottam. Even the script is ambitious, by the acclaimed scriptwriter Tony Grisoni, whosecredits include In This World, Tideland and Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. Butfor the leads, he has chosen two young, upcoming actors, Emma Pierson and DavidLeon. They play a couple find a mysterious child with magical powers on their doorstep in the tough Turkish enclave of North London's Green Lanes. The film follows a Turkish gangster, Mr Karva(James Cosmo), his stepson Othello(David) and his girlfriend(Emma) as they confront their flaws,taking charge of the angelic boy who has the ability to make everyone's fortune.
Whether this film will do the same for Rankin is yet to be seen. He sank £300,000 of his own money into the movie, calling it "a slightly pricier way of going to film school". David, 26, and Emma, 25, were drawn by the promise of Grisoni's script as well as the prospect of working with Rankin."Terry Gilliam wanted to make the movie, and Michael Winterbottom" David explains. "But they couldn't get the money". Emma, whose lashes are still spidery with mascara from Rankin's ES shoot earlier in the day, was also "instantly interested in the project because Tony Grisoni's writing was almost poetic, but using modern language and swearwords and slang.
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Emma, who lives with a 30 year old commodities broker in Teddington,is also on the way to thespian fortune. "I always wanted to act" she explains,curling up her legs (plugged into cosy black Uggs) up on the sofa." I joined the North Bradley players in the Wiltshire village we moved into when I was ten.They had an amateur dramatics group, which my whole family went to on Wednesday nights. We'd do pantos at Christmas. It was wonderful. Then I was spotted in a play in Bath by a film producer called Willie Christie and he offered me a part in a short film. An agent saw me in that, and that led to Grange Hill when I was 16.
Since then she has worked non-stop, appearing in the BBC sitcom Beast, Absolutely Fabulous, the Fay Ripley ITV drama I Saw You, as Nell Gwynn opposite Rufus Sewell in Charles II on BBC One, and in Blooodlines, the ITV detective drama, and BBC One's Hotel Babylon. "My second series of Hotel Babylon is about to start" she says "and I've done Who Gets The Dog? with Alison Steadman which comes out in March, about a couple who are divorcing. I play a solicitor. And I'm working with Max Beasley, who was also in Bloodlines and Hotel Babylon, on an ITV series called Is This Love? It's Cold Feet with tougher edges, and I playa character who has her troubles, whether it's using men or cigarettes or alcohol as a crutch. She's a little bit troubled" She grins calmly, giving the impression that she, by contrast, is completely in control. It looks as if Rankin is as good at choosing stars as he is a shooting them.
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My favourite Celebs are Stacey Cadman, Emma Pierson and Helen Flanagan
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