N.S. actress and stunt double Alexandra MacLean has impressive resume, but ‘still learning’ – Halifax | 24CA News
At the age of 23, Nova Scotia’s Alexandra MacLean already has a formidable resume within the Canadian movie and tv trade. She’s a author, actress, and one of many province’s only a few Black feminine stunt performers.
She expressed an curiosity in performing at a younger age and tells Global News her dad and mom had been supportive from the very starting of her journey.
“I was 11 when they added me to Hennessey Casting and that happened to be the same year that Mr. D came about. So, I think everyone in their 20s nowadays from Halifax has been on Mr. D at some point,” she mentioned.
MacLean mentioned she labored as a background performer on Mr. D, which grew to become her summer season job for eight years.
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MacLean started her profession in stunts two years in the past when a fellow actor, Devon Taylor, known as her to see if she was .
“He called me about two years ago and said ‘You know, you’re athletic, we need a Black stunt performer, we really don’t have any. Can you be this Black woman’s stunt double?’” MacLean recalled.
She was within the supply and from there she started her profession as a stunt performer, performing as Jully Black’s stunt double on Diggstown.
Alexandra MacLean is a author, actress, and one of many province’s only a few Black feminine stunt performers.
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MacLean’s curiosity in writing got here at a younger age as nicely. She cherished poetry and wrote her personal novels when she was youthful.
She didn’t know the right way to write a script till she learn Shonda Rhimes’s ebook, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person.
In MacLean’s phrases, “I decided to (kind of) have my own ‘year of yes.’”
That’s when she determined to use for the BIPOC TV & Film Writing Program for Kids TV Intensive. MacLean was one in all six competitors winners and was chosen to the 2023 Wild Brain Writing Summit Initiative.
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With her most up-to-date performing performances in Diggstown and Kids VS Aliens, MacLean expresses that even along with her present success, she is younger and remains to be studying the right way to be higher.
“Everyone is so, so, helpful. You know it’s kind of intimidating because there’s cameras and a ton of people on set, a ton of crew, but everyone generally wants to help you,” she mentioned.
MacLean, who may also seem as a stunt double within the upcoming TV miniseries Washington Black, will take part at a panel on networking on the Halifax Central Library on Feb. 25 at 10:30 am.
She will talk about the easiest way to community with individuals in numerous areas of the movie and leisure trade.
“I’m not an expert, I’m still learning. But I have kind of my foot a bit in the door of three different avenues in the film industry,” she mentioned.
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