TAKING REVENGE: A Conversation With Sophie Rankin About Howard J. Ford’s Award Winning Survival Thriller ESCAPE
Sophie Rankin is a very talented British actress with a lot of great acting credits in film and TV under her belt from having worked in the industry all over the world. Sophie's been in 24 feature films, many of which she’s had lead roles in, TV shows and TV series including the very popular Emmerdale playing Erica and she currently stars in several feature films being released worldwide this year! Please check her full CV.
She's well known for being a lovely individual who’s always smiling with bundles of energy and a ton of enthusiasm for life and we can’t wait to interview her today!
Sophie returns to The Fan Carpet to talk about the Award Winning ESCAPE, who inspires her in the industry and she updates us on her career...
What can you tell us about ESCAPE?
ESCAPE is a non stop action packed insanely entertaining adrenaline rush full of absolute carnage in epic locations!
The film is based around human trafficking but it’s a female empowered kick ass revenge movie so we take the bad guys down in style!
What was it about ESCAPE that made you want to be involved to tell this story?
I just absolutely loved my role in it and how my character Lucy starts off as a victim but quickly turns things around giving all the psycho baddies what they deserve! For me the action side of it was great too as I got to show off some of my fight skills! I also loved the back story of my character as it gave her a lot of depth and made her even more interesting to portray!
I also loved the plot of the movie in general and how fast paced it is full of larger than life action and so much entertainment!
And of course knowing that Howard Ford was behind the epic creation made me want to be involved even more as he’s so so incredibly talented and I knew this one would be something really unique and special!
I was also very keen to tell the story as unfortunately human trafficking is still happening in so many places in this world and I feel it’s something we should all be very aware of to try to keep as safe as we can possibly be.
When you read the script, what was it about Lucy that struck you and how did you find the interactions with Sarah’s Karla, since your character spends a lot of time with her?
I think initially I was very drawn to how determined Lucy is, how strong she is and also how she really lives of her emotions and takes things to whole new levels no matter what! She’s a bad ass with a good heart and will stop at nothing to protect people but she’s also very straight talking and to the point! She isn’t afraid to show people up if they’ve done wrong and to eliminate villains if she thinks that’ll be much better for the world hahaha!
She’s feisty and outspoken and I possess those qualities in real life so I was able to insert a little bit of my own personality into hers! I absolutely love her character all in all so getting to play her was really amazing!
It was absolutely fantastic working with the lovely Sarah Marks. It was such a pleasure for us to play joint leading roles in the movie which I think helped to mirror female empowerment even more as we working together in the movie instead of against each other which you frequently see in certain misogynistic horrors haha which obviously this isn’t so I think that in itself was really nice! She’s such a lovely girl and we have become really close friends which is lovely and we are very supportive of each other’s work. She’s super talented as well so every scene we had together always felt so easy and natural and really flowed. I felt we had really good on set chemistry so she was such a fabulous partner in crime and I hope we’ll get to do lots more movies together!
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