LIMERICK School of Acting has a 10-year-old student who is cast in three film roles already this year. Young Rebecca Carroll from Kildimo caught the eye of Limerick man, Brian O’Toole in a trawl through Limerick contacts for his graduate movie ‘Sunday Morning’ for London Film School. Director of Limerick School of Acting Nigel Mercier reports that he was hugely impressed by the 20 minutes short, “not just by Rebecca’s performance but by Brian’s skill as a film maker.
‘Sunday Morning’ is 20 minutes long and she is practically the only actor in the whole shoot”.
On then to casting director Louise Kiely for a Geraldine Somerville movie role, ‘The Girl’. The credits say “is a frightening but beautiful movie about a woman who realises she is not alone in her West of Ireland hideaway”.
And there is more in the offing, according to Mercier, himself a savvy and suave screen/ stage actor of note: “Rebecca is pencilled in for a role with Ciarán Hynes in a film adaptation of John Banville’s novel ‘The Sea’. It’s well budgeted and will be shot in Wicklow where a famine ship is docked”.
Rebecca’s mum Nives Carroll had great praise for his part in teaching and placing his students: “Without Rebecca going to Nigel for classes, there would not be these opportunities which came towards her, none of this would have happened. The kids, Rebecca and her younger sister Aoise, look forward so much to going to acting school on Saturday mornings”.
2012 really is her year. Mrs Carroll refers to a Youtube ASL app on which Rebecca’s talent can be viewed by all. Salesian College Pallaskenry Senior students won the overall prize in Ireland and Europe for devising an original app Sign4Life that connects people with a hearing disability with hearing communities through Gaeilge. Rebecca features in the introductory video on Youtube.
