The Prophet – Jeffrey Mundell

Video: Unconditional 💛 – Mr Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his son, Elio (Timothee Chalamet) in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name.

“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.”
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

Chuffed to finally share my part in The Sandman on Netflix: A Dream of a Thousand Cats (adapted from Neil Gaiman’s original DC comic book series). I got to work with terrific director, Hisko Hulsing, in his unique style that mixes live action and animation (more on Hisko’s process at Cartoon Brew – you may recognise his visually striking films from other work like Undone on Amazon Prime).

In A Dream of a Thousand Cats I play the physical part of Don (voiced by David Tennant), husband to Laura Lynn and owner of the Tabby Kitten. I was pleasantly surprised to find I was ‘married’ to a familiar face, having previously worked with the magic Louise Williams (Laura Lynn) in Secret Cinemas: Blade Runner back in 2018.

With Louise Williams on the set of *The Sandman: A Dream of a Thousand Cats* at Shepperton Studios, July 2021.

I think it was mostly my looong legs that got me the part, though having a background in physical theatre and mime does come in handy when working imaginatively on a chroma-key set with only a few bits of bright blue or green furniture and a whole lot of tape marking out where there might be a wall, door or a little cat sleeping…and dreaming.

I must give a shout out to Lucinda Syson Casting for inviting me to audition, my team at WBM for hooking me up with this part, and my self-tape muse, Jo Gale who gave an excellent read on my audition tape (as always!)

Onwards and upwards.