David Taplin has written the script of Rooms The Movie and played "The Watcher" - the main character of the film.
Recently I've had a chat with David about the film, the script, the watcher and the production...
David Taplin and the script
"Well, it all started with this very unusual gentleman called Mateo, who
used to be my neighbour in Venezuela, we talked a lot about films,
writing, television and stuff...he moved to London, I didn't really see
much of him and then early this year he phoned me up to say that he had a
great idea for a film, would I be interested in writing it? I haven't
seen Mateo in a long time so I thought: I'll go and have a drink with
him anyway! We sat there in a bar, he pitched me the idea and I thought
it was fantastic: 3 South Americans living in rooms in the same building
in London!"
Kimberly Barrios, Mateo Manaure and David Taplin
David also said that Mateo wanted an English character to bind everybody's story together: "..we talked about Hitchcock's film Real Window - which is a favourite of mine, it is about a guy that has a telescope, a broken leg and nothing to do so he just spies his neighbours..." then the story of The Watcher came around, but what he was not expecting was that Mateo wanted him to play it in the film...the bad man but the hero as well!
David Taplin and Angelita Jimenez
"...during the filming, a couple of times, I stopped, I thought, this is weird, this all came out of my head, these interesting, amazing, beautiful people speaking my words..." said David Taplin.
This article about Rooms The Movie, including pictures of actor Indio Lyrico, actress Kimberly Barrios and photograpy director Rafael Marin, appeared in Romford Recorder newspaper .
"They came and covered a shoot we did at Hotel Harefield Manor" said Natalie Daniels-Browne, the producer of the film.
