Warning: This investigation contains themes of a sexual nature that some readers may find upsetting. EXCLUSIVE: Nikki was like many young actresses with a screen dream: freshly graduated from Britain’s world-class performing arts education system, but needing to professionalize her résumé without any notable credits.
Nikki, a pseudonym we are using to disguise her identity, asked for recommendations and thumbed through social media in search of someone who could help her film acting scenes for a showreel.
She alighted on Ryan Kirwan, a man whose business was booming at the height of the post-pandemic production frenzy. With a sharp eye for self-promotion and breezy self-confidence, Kirwan transformed himself from an actor holding puppies in pet store ads to one of the UK’s go-to showreel producers.
He’d barely picked up a camera before throwing himself into a business that became a six-day-a-week job, filming scenes in the service of hundreds of Hollywood hopefuls.
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