Sheffield actor Jamie Sandersfield makes lockdown love story Talk Soon with a stranger

Jamie Sandersfield found his career had juddered to a halt during the pandemic but a friend’s recommendation put him in touch with Caroline Dehn. Together they created Talk Soon, a 13-part series on YouTube.

Former King Edward VII School pupil Jamie, from Crookes, plays student Max, who has just returned from a university exchange to Australia and finds out he’s made an impression on a young woman he met called Rosie.

But lockdown has just started and they’re thousands of miles apart, so will they overcome all those obstacles to take a chance on love?

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Jamie said: “Basically, the whole time was me and Caroline. We would each write our own episodes and obviously we’d chat about the overall story.

“I was genuinely in London and Sheffield and she was genuinely in Melbourne.

"We couldn’t collaborate physically. We did everything ourselves.”

Jamie went to Act One drama studio in Ecclesall, who encouraged him to apply to drama school.

He learned film-making while at Guildford School of Acting and last year worked with friends on Steal Suffering, “a film about jazz and all the places we find hope”.

Jamie co-directed the short film, which was funded by raising £19,000 through Kickstarter.

“That was amazing,” said Jamie. “It fed into making the series, even though it’s on a much smaller scale.”