Kate Hardie auditioned for her first role for the film Runners (1982) when she was 14. Since then she has stared in many films including Mona Lisa, The Krays and Croupier. Kate Hardie's most notable role was playing student nurse Karen O'Malley in The BBC drama series Casualty.
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| Kate Hardie as Karen O'Malley |
In 2006 Kate Hardie graduated from the National Film and Television School in Screen Writing. Kate Hardie wrote two plays for Channel 4's Coming Up Series; Imprints (2007) and Little Bill Um (2008). Little Bill Um was also Kate Hardie's directorial debut. In 2011 Kate Hardie directed a short film called Shoot Me, staring Claire Skinner and Paul Andrew Williams.
Because of the experience Kate Hardie has with both acting and directing, the talk she gave us was inspirational and really helped us in creating ideas for our own story. We was told that to write a good story we must first find something that we can relate to, even something small, Kate Hardie gave us an example of being a single mum living with a teenage son. She then told us to think about the fear that resides in our idea, giving us the example of her son thinking that she was very controlling in what he does because she has to be both the mother and father. Once we had our idea that both related to us and had an understandable fear we could change it into the context that would fit our genre; horror. Kate Hardie's example was that a single mum with her son had to constantly move town, and it soon became obvious to the audience that every town the mother and son moved from there had been a number of murders. The son always had to look after the mother and the audience doesn't understand why until one night, under a full moon, the mother changes into a werewolf.
Kate Hardie showed us how we could change a simple idea into something that could capture an audiences attention and change into something that was almost unrecognisable from the original story. Kate Hardie also proved what she was saying by giving us examples of films that started with a everyday fear; Finding Nemo. Once the talking fish, sharks and the ocean were stripped back from Finding Nemo it was clear the story was simply about the fear a father has of his child going missing, and how if he did, he would go to the end of the earth to find him.
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| Finding Nemo |
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