Which 'miserable' northerners could appear in Mike Leigh's Peterloo film?

After a casting call asks for 'downtrodden faces', we offer some suggestions for possible stars

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Is your face northern? If it is you could become a film star.

A Home Counties casting agency is looking for "miserable and downtrodden… authentic northern faces" to appear as extras in a new Mike Leigh film about the Peterloo Massacre starring Maxine Peake, the Bolton actor who led tributes to the Peterloo victims at a memorial event in 2014.

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