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Sharon Rooney as Josephine in The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain.
The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain: Sharon Rooney on acting her age, reuniting with Benedict Cumberbatch and falling for Mr Bumble (Sunday Post, January 1, 2022)
Deep-set crow’s feet, neck wattle and wrinkles: at 33, Glasgow girl Sharon Rooney has the lot – but only when shooting her new movie.
The My Mad Fat Diary star sat patiently for hours while make-up artists transformed her into a 72-year-old with glued-on jowls and special contact lenses to create the illusion of rheumy eyes.
“I would get messages from my mum saying ‘Send me pictures,’” recalls Rooney.
“Eventually I gave in and immediately she said, ‘You look like your gran.’ That’s what I tried to warn her! I looked so like her mum, who passed away not long ago, although my gran wouldn’t mind, she’d have found it funny.
“I found it fascinating, but not scary because we should be allowed to age. In fact, there’s something beautiful about ageing.
“You can see a life in a face. For instance, I have a really strong frown line between my eyes because I frown when I’m concentrating. I also have smile lines, because that’s been my life, so I’d never want to erase that.”
In The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain, Rooney plays the sister of the titular artist, who made a fortune painting affectionate pictures of cats, only to lose the lot through bad business deals and ill health.
Since the movies spans decades she appears first as a teen, then a middle–aged woman and eventually as a pensioner.
“The make-up people were brilliant,” she says. “But I think it was harder making me look 17 than it was to make me look 70.”
The film is a passion project for Benedict Cumberbatch, who produced it through his own company, as well as starring as the cat-obsessed Louis Wain.
It reunited Rooney and the Doctor Strange star for the first time since 2013, when she was cast in a Sherlock episode called The Empty Hearse: “I only had a tiny wee scene and it wasn’t even with Benedict but Sherlock is one of my mum’s favourite shows and before filming the whole cast got together to read through the script, so I got to sit in a room and watch Benedict and Martin Freeman work.”
Eight years later, Sharon and Benedict finally share the screen. “He hasn’t changed,” she says. “Back then he was very kind and very generous and he’s still lovely, and ridiculously talented.”
Rooney didn’t know much about Louis Wain before making the movie. “I think that goes for a lot of people,” she says.
“But although you might not know the name, you’d recognise his pictures of cats when you saw them – the style is so distinctive.”
Unsurprisingly, cats feature in the film, including a kitten called Mr Bumble who won Rooney’s heart.
“Up till then I’d got a funny thing with cats. I like them, but I was a bit nervous because our family once had a cat and she hated us,” says the former Two Doors Down star.
“Not just me, the whole family. We looked after her for seven years, and spoilt her quite a bit because we wanted her to like us but she wouldn’t even let me hold her.
“In the end we gave up and passed her on to a friend. The day after she left, my mum phoned her pal to see how the cat was doing, and she said, ‘She’s doing great, such a loving cat.’ Unbelievable! So for a long time I thought, ‘oh well, cats just don’t like us.’”
2021 has been a busy year for the actress, despite the pandemic. As well as Louis Wain, she scooped a supporting actress award for the short film Do No Harm, appeared alongside Keeley Hawes in ITV drama Finding Alice and is set to appear in the upcoming BBC thriller The Control Room.
“I feel like I’m in a really good place now, because I get to do these big films and telly jobs and then I get to do smaller comedies,” says Rooney.
“I love that my work is a completely mixed bag. I’ve just finished filming two jobs that were complete opposites. One of them was The Control Room, and the other one I can’t talk about yet – which is very annoying, because it would make this story a lot better.”
Rooney has been so busy working that she doesn’t have much time to relax in front of the TV: “If I’m away from home, in a strange place, I stick on something like Stepmom, Bridesmaids, or an Adam Sandler movie because I’ve seen them so often that if I fall asleep, it’s OK.
“At this time of year, I also love the Nativity films with Martin Freeman and David Tennant. Their song Dude, Where’s My Donkey is very catchy although when I was scrolling through Tiktok the other day, I saw some of the kids from the film and they are all grown up and six feet tall now.
“Now I understand what my gran used to say about doctors getting younger and younger!”
Despite globetrotting for work, Sharon has no plans to move away from the Dumbarton home she shares with her mum and dad.
“I keep saying to my mum, ‘you’re never, ever getting rid of me,’” she laughs. “I constantly get asked, “have you moved to London yet?” And the answer is that I don’t think I will ever move to London, because I don’t want to.
“When I started out, I had to travel up and down to London to meet people, and it was hard because I would be down to the last two or three for a part, then not get it. The train fare was about £90 each time.
“As an actor, it’s part of life, especially when you’re starting out and people don’t really know you. Now self-taping has become a lot more common, especially after the Covid pandemic began.”
Instead of auditioning actors in person, TV and film bosses now ask them to film themselves reading for a part. For Rooney, this has been a game changer, and has made her mum Libby into a star turn playing all the other characters in Sharon’s scenes.
“My mum loves taping with me, and she’s brought me luck on loads of jobs,” she chuckles.
“She’s my magic charm when I’m trying for a part, and I usually get a note afterwards saying, ‘your mum was very good!’”
Sharon Rooney* as Josephine Wain in The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
(*in the grey-blue dress)
The film is now streaming on Amazon Prime US, and is on general release in the US and limited release in the UK.
It will be on general release in UK, France, Australia and New Zealand in early 2022.
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ALTThe Electrical Life Of Louis Wain will premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on 2 September 2021.
It will have a limited release on 22 October 2021 and is due to be released on Amazon Prime Video on November 5, 2021.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
Director - Will Sharpe, Cinematography - Erik Wilson
“I don’t make the world beautiful, Louis. The world is beautiful, and you’ve helped me to see that, too. Just remember - however hard things get, however much you feel like you’re struggling, the world is full of beauty. And it’s up to you to capture it, Louis. To look and to share it with as many people as you can. You are a prism through which that beam of life refracts.”
Benedict from “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain”
Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy bouncing in unison
Pete Conrad: Neil, I was sorry to hear about your daughter.
Neil Armstrong: I’m sorry, is there a question?
Pete Conrad: What I… What I mean is… Do you think it’ll have an effect?
Neil Armstrong: I think it would be unreasonable to assume that it wouldn’t have some effect.
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