Spang ready to finish Chasing Talents in October
- Casper Crump and Mille Lehfeldt to play the leads in the Danish actor, stand-up comedian and theatre manager’s feature directorial debut
While Danish actor Jonatan Spang will next month (March) begin shooting Danish director Rasmus Heide’s comedy, All for Two – the sequel to last year’s All for One [+see also:
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Danish producer Bio Ehrhardt, of Nimbus Film, is backing the €1.9 million comedy, scripted by Mette Heeno, which will start principal photography on April 25 with a cast that includes Casper Crump, Mille Lehfeldt, Frank Hvam, Mille Dinesen, Birthe Neumann, Simon Jul and Nicolas Bro.
”With two films and an October deadline for my own, it will be like starting out on an Ironman, but I am confident – after all I have with some of the best talent in Danish comedy on board,” said Spang, who will also perform in his depiction of ”today’s ridiculous focus on talent and lack of same”.
The story follows the relationship between Mark (Crump) and Laura (Lehfeldt) – he is the lead singer in an ageing boy band that's on their way to oblivion. Aslan, an inventor, has come up with a machine which can measure talent, and Laura finds out she is immensely talented. It can also steal talent, Mark discovers, and begins to rob his girlfriend.
A Danish stand-up champion, Spang enrolled at the Aarhus Theatre’s acting school; after graduation, when performing in plays by Albee, Ibsen and Dickens, he was touring his own one-man show. Between 2007-2009 he was co-manager of Copenhagen’s Nørrebro Teater.
Spang played the young Lars von Trier in the partly-biographical The Early Years - Erik Nietzche, Part 1 (2007), directed by Jacob Thuesen. Supported by the Danish Film Institute, and pre-sold to TV2, Chasing Talents will be released by SF Film in the autumn.
Photo: Nicolas Bro, Mille Dinesen, Jonatan Spang, Mille Lehfeldt, Casper Crump
Photo credit: Christian Geisnæs
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