"Kirk Jones was feeling nervous. The director was two weeks away from shooting his new film, a biopic of the pioneering Scottish Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson, and he still hadn't seen his lead actor perform any of the script. Jones had been impressed by Robert Aramayo in the supernatural Netflix series Behind Her Eyes, and liked the actor when they met over Zoom."
"I was confident enough not to feel the need to meet 50 other actors and audition them, he says. But I didn't ask him to read, he admits. Looking back, I think that was insane. His gamble paid off. When I Swear premiered at the Toronto International film festival in September, Variety deemed Aramayo flawless, IndieWire praised his striking, star-making performance and Screen International marked the actor out as a major big-screen talent."
"Aramayo is best known for playing Elrond in The Rings of Power, Amazon's megabudget TV prequel to The Lord of the Rings, although Game of Thrones fans will remember him as the young Ned Stark. But his latest film feels like a throwback to a certain kind of British movie; like The Full Monty or Billy Elliot. I Swear is a social issue film, a tearjerker and a feelgood comedy, too."
Kirk Jones was two weeks from shooting a biopic of Scottish Tourette campaigner John Davidson and had not seen his lead actor read the script. Jones invited Robert Aramayo to Galashiels to meet Davidson and chose him without extensive auditions. The gamble paid off: I Swear premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to praise from Variety, IndieWire and Screen International. Aramayo, known for Elrond in The Rings of Power and as young Ned Stark, portrays Davidson's tics with technical nuance, sensitivity and charisma. The film channels British social-issue, feelgood comedies, and Aramayo is described as unassuming and based in New York.
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