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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Laura Martin

‘We secretly applied without telling our parents’: why so many young people want to attend the Brit School

Daisy working with prosthetics at Iver Academy
Makeup and wig artist Daisy Potter learned her craft at the Brit School Photograph: N/A

Walking backstage for the first time into one of the West End’s most eagerly awaited musicals, The Devil Wears Prada, 21-year-old makeup and wig artist Daisy Potter had a little first-day apprehension. But then she saw a familiar face.

“I bumped into a girl who did sound in my year at the Brit School,” she says. “It was so lovely to see her. You always bump into other people from Brit on all sorts of jobs, because the reach of the school is just so vast and worldwide. At any time, I always know a load of people who are working around the world on tour – we’ve all kept in contact.”

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