Lyndall Grant and Bronte Charlotte chat about life as a professional Fight Director and motion capture specialist. We delve into Lyndalls experience starting her company Captivate Action, training and working in the UK and then moving back to the Melbourne to jump straight into working at the MTC and the VCA, and then landing a role in one of the biggest productions in Australia, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child!

During this episode we discuss:

• [03:00] Landing an ensemble role in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, what is expected of you as a cover in such a huge production, and the Harry Potter family
• [04:46] Lyndalls history in acting training, fight training and motion capture, and how 15 years of hard work lead to her acting break
• [11:46] The difference in support networks in Australia vs the UK
• [14:01] Starting up Captivate Action, Lyndalls fight and motion capture training company
• [17:12] The in’s and out’s of motion capture casting
• [19:18] The in’s and out’s of fight directing
• [23:13] Choreographing fights between, or involving, women, and different audience & actor responses to fights
• [30:42] Consent, power dynamics, and actor vs character abilities
• [34:22] Being faced with misogyny, childish behaviour and difficulties as a woman in the workplace
• [41:27] Intimacy in fights, using unsexualised language, and the effect on the aggressor of a fight scene
• [45:21] Societal pressures and expectations on men to behave in certain ways, the cultural change that needs to happen, and how to deal with experiences with aggression on the job
• [52:38] Habits, warm ups and being wholeheartedly in love with performing
• [55:43] GET ON IT: Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe (podcast & book)

RESOURCES 

• Arts Ed
  https://artsed.co.uk
• British Academy of Dramatic Combat
  https://www.badc.org.uk
• Society of Australian Fight Directors
  https://safdi.org.au/
• Felicity Steel
  https://felicitysteel.com/FIGHT-CHOREOGRAPHER
• Captivate Action
  http://www.captivate-action.com
• Paddy Crean
  https://www.paddycrean.com
• Michelle Ladd Williams stunt co-ordinating
  http://re-actionstunts.com/
• Carrie Thiel motion capture
  http://www.carriethiel.com/
• Faisal Mian at Wu Style Taiji Quan & Qi Gong Association
  http://www.wutaijiandqigong.co.uk/
• Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe
  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sex-power-money-with-sara-pascoe/id1472725741

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Produced by Anahata Collective

Music by Rick Scully