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by sam rhodes
With six films in 2024, the idea of those around Georgie Harriet-King who thought her horror career would be short-lived were severely mistaken.
With inspirations from Edgar Wright to Tracy Beaker and moving from jazz hands in the theatre to horror, Georgie has one passion – to perform for the rest of her life. She said: “I mean it started very much with jazz hands and sing-song and it was all very light-hearted.
“I use a casting site called StarNow which is a great site, and it was in 2021 I just applied for a shitload of jobs and acting it’s just the numbers game.”
“If you put 100 applications out, you might hear back from about five, you get two auditions, and one of those auditions you get the job – it’s so cutthroat.”
“The first film I booked was a zombie film and I loved it and did a bit of networking, and from there, horror is the most accessible kind of route for films.”
One of Georgie’s favourite parts of acting is getting messy – with fake blood made of chocolate syrup and food dye and how to make fake drugs, she says she loves “messy acting” and that every fake blood tastes different.
However, acting is not always positive as the money can be minimal and it can be hard to say no to jobs.
“I feel like it’s only been the past month or so that I’ve been able to be a bit more choosy with what I do and the majority of stuff, I just say yes to.
“I feel like I’d be stupid if I got into this profession for the money, it pays nothing, there have been times when, financially, it’s just not viable to do this, and then every time I’ve thought that and thought, right, I’m going to have to throw the towel in for a while and just get a full-time job, another acting job has come up.
“You go through such quiet periods and now, all of a sudden, it’s kicked back off again – it really is all or nothing – I’m either at home taking a nap or I haven’t slept in five days.”
Never a horror fan growing up, Georgie described herself as a massively anxious child despite now not finding a horror film that has scared her in years.
Consistently professing her love for Sean of the Dead, she expressed how when she was younger she couldn’t even finish The Grudge.
Her nan’s view on horror, however, hasn’t changed and she is hoping for something more lighthearted in the future of her career.
“When I moved to horror people around me thought it would be short-lived and my nan says she just wants one film she can see that’s a romance film or something nice. “She keeps saying to me, so are you going to do something else?”
Her most recent project has been playing Rapunzel in Rapunzel’s Revenge – a modern re-telling of the classic Grim’s fairy tale set between two periods of time, in a modern women’s day prison and medieval England.
Georgie said: “It’s like if you were to take the princess bride and cross it with Deadpool. “It’s ridiculous, but, it’s great fun.”
“I’ve been learning to do forward rolls and flipping over stuff, which is very fun but I came out with so many bruises but they are transferable skills.”
Crossing over her two career paths so far, she hopes if there are to be horror musicals, they involve singing zombies, in a “horror comedy zombie music Christmas film.”
Horror is one of few genres left consistently doing well at the box office, with Georgie “bollocking” people who use illegal streams.
She believes: “If the cinema died off, the collective horror experience isn’t the same, you want to be able to spill popcorn over each other in the cinema.
“As long as I can perform for the rest of my life, even if that’s, a big film or the local toilets.”
all pictures kindly provided by georgie harriet-king
