
About This Episode
My guest this week is an actor with a wealth of experience on stage and screen, and he is one of the stars of a new TV series on Amazon Prime which launches on 28th September, called “Keep Calm and Carry On”.
Join William and I as we have a good old chat about how he got into acting and singing, and some of the experiences, pitfalls, and lessons he learned along the way, before we dive in to Keep Calm…
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About Keep Calm & Carry On
New comedy series ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ airing on Amazon Prime this September. Produced by Raspberry films, written by Lawrence Prestidge.
It will be released on the 28th September and it is 3x episodes and a Christmas special.
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About My Guest
William Lester is an American actor, singer, voice artist, and coral coach living in London for 24 years.
His acting credits range across stage, film and TV. He has played Frank N Furter on tour in Europe, and can be seen in award winning short ‘Entrance No Exit’ on Vimeo Worldwide and Amazon Prime.
William’s voice credits include ‘Mother’ in horror feature ‘Amulet’ and he voices ‘Lithium’ and several other characters in Coex Studio’s audio drama ‘Coexistence’, which held No 1 Sci-Fi drama on Apple Podcasts for 10 weeks. He was born in North Carolina.
He plays Sean in Amazon Prime’s show “Keep Calm and Carry On” – the first 3 episodes go live on 28th September, with a Christmas special already in the can.
You can connect with William at –
Instagram – https://instagram.com/Willzview
Twitter – https://twitter.com/VoiceofWill
Award-winning coach, international speaker, multi-time best-selling author, hypnotist, occasional magician, and writer of this post, Keith spent his first 40 years suffering from several phobias including being terrified of speaking with strangers. After one incident too many, he started studying and training in NLP & hypnosis to conquer his own issues, found he was rather good at it, and changed careers (aided by redundancy at just the right moment after 20 years in IT). He helps people transform their deepest fears into their greatest strengths, and having helped over 5,000 people across 5 continents, he is the UK’s #1 Fear Strategist.