When the script for The Gold came through four years ago, Charlotte Spencer was so young that she had to consult her parents. Not because she lacked experience – by then, she had been acting for almost 20 years, spanning Bafta nominations (for Jack Thorne’s Glue and an adaptation of Iain Banks’s Stonemouth) and West End blockbusters Mary Poppins and Oliver!. More because she hadn’t heard of the subject matter.
“I wasn’t even born when Brink’s-Mat happened,” laughs the 33-year-old over Zoom. “But mum and dad were really excited – why wouldn’t they be? It was the biggest gold heist the world had ever seen! Families see all the boring, rubbishy bits of acting where you’re waiting by the phone, so to involve them in the fun parts and run a script by them is lovely.”
