Grab a drink and join us this week for our newest installment of the Modern Class of Casting Visionaries with the amazing Casting Director, Finnian Tweed!
Finnian Tweed is a Casting Director specialising in film and TV with 14 years of industry experience. In 2020 he set up Finnian Tweed Casting. Finnian has extensive experience working on American & UK/EU based projects. Recent credits include the action film DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA starring Gerard Butler (released in January 2025), the latest David Ayer movie ‘A WORKING MAN’ starring Jason Statham (releasing March 2025) and the biblical epic ‘MARY’ starring Anthony Hopkins and directed by D.J. Caruso – currently a huge hit on Netflix. He is also casting ‘THE GUN ON SECOND STREET’ which Guy J. Louthan is producing. Currently we have a roster of exciting feature films in development for 2025.
From 2018-2020 Finnian worked alongside Sophie Holland as her Casting Associate on 2 seasons of the hugely successful 8 part series 'The Witcher' for Netflix. He was also Sophie's Casting Associate on 'Young Wallander' for Yellow Bird UK/ Netflix and scores of other exciting projects including NBC pilot seasons 2019 and 2020. In 2018 he worked with Gary Davy on a number of shows including 'The Spanish Princess' for Starz. Prior to that he worked with Suzanne Smith on ‘Outlander’ and at the BBC in house casting dept where his Casting Director credits included ‘Doctors’, ‘The Break’ Series 2 (BBC3 iplayer online) and the October 2017 ‘Sky Drama Table Read’, hosted by the BBC Writersroom.
In this episode we dive in and discuss...
-Finnian's foray into acting and how he eventually ended up in casting
-How he has found starting his own company
-What are the positives and challenges in being a Casting Director post pandemic/strike
-How he finds new talent
-His favorite audition stories
-What's coming up for him in the future!
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