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Breaking Baz: Scottish-Italian Newcomer Ruaridh Mollica On His Breakthrough Performance In Mikko Makela’s Sundance-Bound ‘Sebastian’
EXCLUSIVE: Ruaridh Mollica says he had a year to prepare for his “role of a lifetime — so far” in Finnish filmmaker Mikko Makela’s powerful new film Sebastian, which premieres at Sundance…
The 24-year-old Mollica, born to a Scottish mother and an Italian father, gives a superlative performance in his first feature film lead role, as he assumes the split personalities of Max, a young wannabe literary sensation, and Sebastian, who hires himself out to desirous older male clients. He still needed to enter “the beautiful world of retail” at Selfridges department store on Oxford Street to make ends meet after landing Sebastian, but after Makela’s team secured funding for the film, shooting was set for Dalston in East London, Glasgow and a short stint in Brussels. Recently, he shot some scenes for an episode of Sexy Beast, a fabulous Paramount+ drama series that serves as a prequel to Jonathan Glazer’s seminal film of the same name that starred Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Amanda Redman and Ian McShane, who played crime kingpin Teddy Bass.
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