RAGE

For her acclaimed career in film and theatre, she became a DBE in 1988. Her many film credits include Tea With Mussolini, A Room With a View, and Hamlet.  More recently, she has appeared as M in the James Bond films, as well as Pride and Prejudice, Notes on a Scandal, and the upcoming Nine. Dench has won over 25 awards, including an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, a Golden Globe for Last of the Blonde Bombshells, and eight BAFTA film and television awards.

“Without question, the most unusual piece of work I’ve ever done, and Sally Potter was absolutely fascinating to work with.”

His resumé includes roles in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, the Coen Brothers’ Fargo, Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train, and Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World. He has received Emmy nominations for his performances in The Sopranos and 30 Rock. Buscemi is also a respected writer and director; his last feature Interview premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

“I really loved having the opportunity to work so closely with Sally Potter. We covered a lot of ground in our rehearsals before the shoot, allowing us to really dig deeper during filming. ”

theatre as both an actor and director, winning the Prix Moliére for his performance in Une Bete Sur La Lune. He co-starred with Joan Allen in Sally Potter’s last film, YES, and has since performed in Casino Royale, Persepolis, and Rendition. Abkarian also appeared in the BAFTA-award winning BBC series Spooks, and has starred in several French feature films, including Secret Défense and the upcoming L’Armée du Crime.

“We actors often talk about “freedom”, but what is freedom without a cage? No cage, no tiger. Here the cage is the frame; it is dancing with me while I am trying to be Merlin. Sally is holding the camera. She is following me, hunting every single move of mine with the eye of a wild cat. Her words open an imaginary battlefield in me, words that feed me and put me in the posture of a stuntman of emotions.”

herself the youngest model to appear on the cover of British Vogue, at the age of 16. Her other film roles include St. Trinian’s and a lead role in Terry Gilliam’s upcoming The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

“The unusual shooting set up on RAGE, of just Sally with the camera, the sound recordist, and myself created an extraordinary level of intimacy quickly which allowed Sally and I to experiment and really explore the character. With great sensitivity and intensity, Sally was drawing out emotions in me and then tempering them, always guiding me toward delivering just what was necessary and true to the character.”

Izzard has been hailed as one of the foremost stand-ups of his generation, and since his 1993 debut in the one-man show Live at the Ambassadors has had sell-out international tours. Izzard now enjoys equal success as an actor, starring in the television drama The Riches, and appearing in films such as Velvet Goldmine, Oceans Twelve, Oceans Thirteen, and Valkyrie.

show business. Ahmed is a vibrant talent in film and music; in addition to his many upcoming film roles, he performs as Riz MC and is an Emerging Artist in Residence at London's Southbank Centre. Ahmed starred in Michael Winterbottom's Road to Guantanamo and plays the title character in forthcoming feature Shifty, for which he received a British Independent Film Award nomination.

“Working with Sally on this film was a very unique and liberating process, even before we got the body paint out! Sally works in a very detailed but very relaxed way, and I think this works perfectly when completing these one take shots which are very theatrical in a sense, but also very intimate. I think this healthy tension really helped with the whole tone of honest confession versus self-conscious performance for these characters.”

Following his early success in Wilde and The Talented Mr. Ripley, Law became one of the most sought-afterscreen actors. He has starred in more than twenty films including AI, Cold Mountain and Alfie and, more recently, All the Kings Men, Breaking and Entering and Sleuth. His theatre work on Broadway and in the West End includes Indiscretions, Dr. Faustus and the upcoming Hamlet.

“Yet again Sally Potter has come up with something unique and original.  The process was all about relating to her behind the camera. Shutting out everyone but her and one's character. It was hard! It was rewarding. It was very intense.”

Adams has won praise for his performances in television, film, and theatre, ranging from roles in Lost and Friday Night Lights to his memorable debut in Old School and roles in the The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and Marat/Sade.

“There was a dedication to specificity of language, rhythm and movement in the exploration of character that I have never really experienced until I worked with Ms. Potter. Sally's exacting precision, piercing curiosity, and steady hand led me through one of the most interesting and rewarding processes of my life.”

Barraza’s performance in Amores Perros brought her to the attention of an international audience. She was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her powerful performance in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel.  Most recently, Adriana starred in Henry Poole Is Here as well as Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell, and the upcoming independent film Burning Palms, directed by Christopher Landon.  Alongside her film work, Adriana has also made notable guest appearances on E.R. and CSI: Miami.  

“RAGE gave me the possibility to open a wonderful range of emotions of a human being, from indifference to infinite compassion for the other, from sweetness to uncontrollable anger, from uncertainty to deeper certainty. It was a unique experience.

Making the character of Anita de Los Angeles in RAGE with Sally was for me one of the great experiences that I've had in my 37 years as an actress. It was returning to roots of performance: pure performance, an actor in front of a spectator, in this case Director Sally, to prove that the actor on stage is all or nothing.”

Jakob is one of Denmark’s most praised actors and in 2005 was elected Shooting Star at the Berlin Film Festival. Recently he has been nominated for the Danish Film Academy Award “Robert” for Best Leading Role in “Terribly Happy”, which also won the Crystal Globe Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2008. Cedergren is starring in the upcoming Submarino, directed by Thomas Vinterberg.

 "This is one of the strangest and funniest experiences I´ve ever had. Sally and the crew was the best, so it was two days of playing with very good material. It´s great when it gets to be like that.
 
This is my first feature in English, and I remember seing the cast when I arrived in London and thinking. ’You get to be in a film with these people and we´re all doing monologues...daaaamm. ’

I thought of Otto as one of those people who is like an elephant who’s convinced he´s a great line dancer.”

in Martin Scorsese’s Carlito’s Way and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet led to a rich film career; he has since appeared in more than 50 films and most recently starred in Nothing Like the Holidays and Where God Left His Shoes.

“It's so rare you get to work with a true artist who isn’t guided by cash or fame or vanity but that's what you get when you work with Sally Potter. Someone who is thinking outside the box and wanting to do things that haven't been done.  To explore story telling.

It was a blast. I mean it was super indulgent and narcissistic for me.  Here I was alone with the director and no other actor siblings to argue or fight for attention with. The camera was always on me.  I loved it.”

member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has recently starred in the HBO miniseries Five Days and ABC’s critically acclaimed A Raisin in the Sun. He plays the legendary blues icon Muddy Waters in Who Do You Love and was recently seen in Anthony Minghella’s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.


"This was a truly unique, artistic experience, in that it felt like a meeting point for film, theatre, literature and photography. Sally used all of these art forms to tell the story and reveal her characters. I could tell from reading Sally's script that she had a very complete and complex vision for the film, but the pleasant surprise was how much that vision grew and shifted with new input. The World she revealed felt alien yet familiar, whilst juxtaposing falseness and truth. Two words say it all, unique and creative."

is set. The double-Oscar winning actress was most recently seen in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons on Broadway. Her film credits include Parenthood, Edward Scissorhands, The Birdcage, and her extensive work with Woody Allen includes Hannah and her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.  Recent projects include Charlie Kaufman’s film Synecdoche, New York.  In 2008 she won an Emmy for her role in the TV series In Treatment.

"I remember telling Sally while we were shooting how relieved I felt to be a part of her revolution; how good it felt even if it was only imaginary."