Lovers Jump by Mark McCombe, starring Laurence Fuller

I've enjoyed a lot watching this atmospheric short directed by Mark McCombe, featuring only two characters from a family unit and their talk at a bridge.

Poster of "Lovers Jump" directed by Mark McCombe (2010)

Official Synopsis:
Peter (Laurence Fuller) is wracked with guilt after the death of his mother. He goes to Lover’s Jump bridge and decides that there is only one way to stop his pain.
After receiving Peter’s ominous phone call, his Aunt Sandra (Holly Clark) rushes to the bridge but can she change his mind before it’s too late? Source: www.napiernews.com

Interview to Lovers Jump director Mark McCombe:
-What training have you received?
-We always had a camera in our family. It was a bulky over-the-shoulder camera so I would pester my dad to allow me to use it; thankfully he gave in most times. One thing he used to do was put music to our home videos, which really had an effect on me; music and video is a powerful combination. Imagining ideas set around the foundations of a song, that’s what I love to do. I have a passion for music videos that I intend to pursue.

-What kind of projects attract you?
-A strong story that can draw the audience into the world I am hoping to create. It’s the backbone. You can have all the fancy equipment of a Hollywood studio, but without a good story you have nothing. When something excites me, ideas seem to be plucked from the air with no effort at all; that’s when I know its something special. It becomes part of my thinking throughout the following days and weeks.

-What’s the best advice you’ve been given as a director?
-Get out there and do it, regardless of what kit you have; you achieve nothing waiting around.

-Tell us the most significant moment in your career so far.
-I’m hopefully right at the beginning of my career, so completing Lover’s Jump was a great achievement for myself and for everyone else involved. Thinking back to when I asked Jenny [Wong] if she would mind me directing her script right through to completion then finally seeing people’s reactions has been extremely rewarding. From its very humble beginning it has blossomed into a project that shows off the talents of everyone involved.

-You’ll die happy when…
-I’d love to make the feature I have penned myself and see people enjoy it; a lot to ask but, hey, life is full of surprises. Source: www.moviescopemag.com

Laurence Fuller is a young, established method actor working in London. He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2007 after fellow alumni Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day-Lewis, similarly known for their physical transformation. After three years in British theatre and over twenty theatre productions, he became an international film actor at 21, with leading roles in such movies as Possession(s) and Cold Blood Kill.
Laurence Fuller (Lovers Jump) was under consideration for "a brooding misanthropic vampire" in The Twilight Saga: "Breaking Dawn" Part 1. Laurence was recently in the mix for lead roles in Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 (directed by Rob Marshall, starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz), Spiderman 4 (the franchise reboot, directed by Marc Webb) and Vamps starring Sigourney Weaver for Ben Stiller's company Red Hour Films.

Laurence wraps as the lead on Saman Perera's Old Times, about a dysfunctional relationship which escaltes to a disturbing end, reminicent of modern day Revolutionary Road.
Lucy Luscombe and Laurence Fuller in Old Times

Having attended the Method School of acting in the UK, Fuller has put together an impressive acting CV in both theatre and in short films.
Still of Martin Scorsese in Boardwalk Empire

Laurence was up for a regular role of a gangster in season 2 of Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire for HBO, produced by Mark Walhberg

Possession(s) is the latest of your short films. How would you describe it to Reelloop readers with no knowledge of the project?

Possession(s) is about the connection between a person and a work of art in a very real and un-glorified way. There are no singing angels or holy lights shining through the window. It’s not pretentious about the subject. It’s about a collector and his desire to possess not just this painting but the people around him and trade them like objects. None of the characters are without their flaws. Max Cullen said the script was very Chekhovian in that way, which was pretty savvy.
The film was launched to coincide with the sale of the famous Painting (Man With Bandaged Head) by Peter Booth on November 25th.

Read more about this up-and-coming actor in Source: www.laurencefuller.com