Martin Freeman has starred in a new short film titled The Girl Is Mime. The Hobbit actor features as a mime artist who is accused of murdering his wife in the six-minute project from filmmaker Tim Bunn. The film was made two years ago for the 48 Hour Film Contest. They previously worked together on the charity film HIV: The Musical. Bunn said that Freeman "very generously gave us his Saturday" after being asked by a mutual friend. "Initially we were a little bit worried about telling him, in case he wasn't keen," Bunn told The Hollywood Reporter. "But he wasn't fazed at all. I think he enjoyed the challenge of having very little time to produce a brilliant and believable character. He'd literally just found out that he was going to play Bilbo, so he was going to have to get used to time in the make-up chair." (more)...
- 12/6/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
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