Age: 34
male
Sean James Teale is a British actor, best known for playing the lead role of Ben Larson in the sci-fi series Incorporated, and the role of Nick Levan in teen drama Skins. He is of Venezuelan, Spanish, and Welsh origins.
She was cursed at birth to sleep for a century. Nobody told the curse she would dream the whole time — or what she would learn there. Princess Aurore, 17 at the time of the curse, sleeps for one hundred years in Thornwood Castle — but the film's radical choice is to follow what happens inside the dream. While the kingdom overgrows with briars and the world changes outside, Aurore's dream-consciousness expands: she encounters the Spinner (the curse's architect, revealed to be a woman of genuine grievance rather than simple malice), she teaches herself the lost arts of her kingdom from the dream's archive of memory, and she falls in love with a version of the prince who is not a savior but a presence she constructs from her own hopes — which makes the waking encounter with the real Prince Léon far more complicated. The film moves between Aurore's dream-world (lush, slightly wrong, timelessly lit) and the waking world (the hundred years shown in fast-forward through the changing seasons visible through the castle windows). When Léon cuts through the briars, he finds not a passive sleeper but a woman who has spent a century becoming extraordinary — and who needs to grieve the world she missed before she can love the one she woke to. Act One — The Spindle Aurore's world before the curse — the film's only fully sunlit sequence. The thirteenth fairy's arrival. The sleep descending. Act Two — The Dream Century One hundred years of Aurore's interior life. The Spinner's presence in the dream as unwilling companion. The library of the kingdom's lost history. The dream-Léon. Act Three — The Waking Léon cutting through the briars. The kiss. Aurore's eyes opening. The grief and the possibility. The gap between the dream and the world.
