How âRocksâ Made Stars of Its Schoolgirl Cast
By casting first-time actors, the film tells a story rarely seen onscreen: what growing up is like for British women of color.
Clockwise from top: Ruby Stokes, Kosar Ali, Bukky Bakray, Anastasia Dymitrow, Tawheda Begum and Afi Okaidja. The casting team for âRocksâ saw 1,300 girls to find actors to play the filmâs East London teenagers.Credit.Altitude
April 23, 2021, 11:11 a.m. ET
LONDON â Bukky Bakray never thought acting was a real possibility for her. So sheâs struggling to get her head around winning a BAFTA â the British equivalent of an Oscar â for her first role.
After an extraordinary year which temporarily closed cinemas, Damon Smith chooses his top 10 films of 2020 Parasite: Choi Woo-shik as Kim Ki-woo, Song Kang-ho as Kim Ki-taek, Chang Hyae-jin as Kim Chung-sook and Park So-dam as Kim Ki-jeong Damon Smith
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1. PARASITE (15, 132 mins) Thriller/Comedy/Horror/Romance. Song Kang-ho, Chang Hye-jin, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Jeong Ji-so, Jung Hyeon-jun, Lee Jung-eun. Director: Bong Joon-ho.
WRITER-director Bong Joon-ho mines a mother lode of deliciously cruel intentions in his wickedly entertaining, genre-bending satire, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Careening wildly from slapstick and scabrous social commentary to full-blooded horror, Parasite gleefully inhabits the cavernous divide between South Korea s haves and have-nots.