Star Of Peter Kosminsky TV Cyber-Thriller ‘The Undeclared War’ Reveals She Sent 1,000 Emails To Agents And Casting Directors That Went Unanswered
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Hannah Khalique-Brown, the lead actor in director and writer Peter Kosminsky’s (Wolf Hall) highly anticipated, six-part,cyber-thriller The Undeclared War, —starts June 30th on Channel 4 and All 4 in U.K, Peacock in U.S.
on August 18th—has revealed that she wrote 1000 emails over a period of two years “begging“ U.K. agents and casting directors to see her perform in fringe plays, “none of them replied,” she revealed to Deadline. “Though, I would occasionally get an automated reply,” that still read no, said Khalique-Brown, who has been garnering attention from studios in London and Hollywood.The 23-year-old said that she spent hours studying talent and casting agency websites. “I emailed 180 of them,three times a year, for two years.I wouldn’t blanket email them either.
They were all individual emails. I would go on their roster and look at who they represented and I would write that, I think I would really fit in.“However, if they already had Asian actors “who looked like me then I wouldn’t email them,” she explained.
Her plight highlights the difficulties would-be actors from diverse backgrounds, have in getting a foothold in the industry, certainly in the U.K.Khalique-Brown’s sanguine about it now. “I understand a lot more about how the industry works.
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