So, it was really nice to go the opposite way and follow that arc. She decides to continue the deception just long enough to learn his true personality. When she encounters Sir Richard Latimer, however, she finds him witty, considerate and charmingbut only because he thinks she’s a maid. “I’ve kind of played like strong, stand-alone people who take up space and aren’t afraid to. So she finally agrees to meet the suitor her mother has chosen, a painfully shy baronet from the country. “It was a lot of fun to go to places that I’d never really been before,” Doupe said. The role of shy and anxious Char represented a departure for her. And I think we have similar senses of humor and I think that lent itself to our relationship and transferring that onto the screen.”ĭoupe, 18, has been appearing on film and TV for over a decade already. “You just strike lucky sometimes, or Kate saw something in the way the two of us interacted together… In terms of personality we just get along. “Kate had a chemistry test with myself and Hazel,” Bracken recalled. Among their chief tasks as actors was to convincingly portray mother and daughter. “And some supernatural elements reveal themselves.”īracken and Doupe are winning praise for their performances in the taught horror story. Purchase Autographed Books by Kate Dolan Restitution 11.95 The Appearance of Impropriety 14.99 Langley's Choice 14.99 Worth Its Weight in Old 5.99 George Washington Stepped Here 5.99 Toto's Tale 15.99 A Certain Want of Reason 14.99 Avery's Treasure 15.99 Deceptive Behavior 14.99 Roped In 12. “Things kind of take a more sinister turn as her behavior becomes more strange and unusual,” Dolan said. When the mom, Angela (Carolyn Bracken) returns, something abut her is off. In her tale, a woman with a history of mental problems goes missing, to the alarm of her sensitive young daughter Char (Hazel Doupe). Dolan wrote the screenplay, setting the action not in the woods, but in a highly populated area.

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