Sandy Ratcliff (previously a model who was cast as Lord Snowdon's face of the seventies) was recommended for the role by the writer Bill Lyons. Ratcliff was invited in for audition.
Bill Lyons, a writer, advised Sandy Ratcliff, formerly a model cast as Lord Snowdon's iconic look of the 1970s, to take on the role. Ratcliff was then asked to attend an audition.