Netflix star says Glasgow girls' club was her 'springboard to success'

Glasgow Times

2 days ago

'That's the job,' says The Bombing of Pan Am 103 star, with a laugh.
'I'm also trying to duct tape together a DIY cardboard confessional booth. I actually used my TV wages to pay for some of our Fringe run, that's how tight things were.
'But it was so worth it to have something me and my pals could be so proud of, it was fun, it was ours and it was the type of work that needs more support in Scotland.'
Molly Geddes (Image: Wearestoryshop)
Molly, who grew up in Blantyre, is one of the country's brightest young stage and screen stars and she credits a non-profit girls' club in Glasgow as the springboard for her success.
With Glasgow Girls' Club, the 22-year-old wrote and starred in Where We Stop, a six-minute film exploring emotionally abusive relationships, based on her own experience.
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Molly had long wanted to make a film that would help other young women, and approached the Glasgow Girls Club, which she joined when she was 14.
She said: 'Where We Stop deals with a very important and delicate subject. The fact Glasgow Girls Club trusted me to take the lead in making it was incredibly empowering. They believed in me when I didn't fully believe in myself.'
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As well as her writing and acting roles, Molly has been taking the film to schools around Glasgow, where she talks to pupils about the issues raised.
'The workshops we do with the film have been genuinely healing,' she said. 'These girls are so honest, so open. I just feel lucky to be in the room with them.'
Molly, who graduated from Glasgow's Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2023, plays police officer Lauren Aitken in the powerful Netflix drama about the Lockerbie bombing in 1988.
She said: 'It was almost exactly a year ago we filmed The Bombing of Pan Am 103 – my first big job out of drama school. It was so surreal getting the phone call. I remember shouting down the hallway to my mum, absolutely buzzing.
'I'd known quite a lot about the disaster already - I did a presentation on it in primary seven, so it always stuck with me. My character was based on a couple of real people, and I met one or two of them.
"That was definitely one of the biggest pinch-me moments, knowing their lives were being portrayed on screen, and I was part of that.'
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She added: 'The cast was so class, full of people I'd looked up to for years - Scottish acting royalty - and I was so buzzing to just be a wee part of that. It was just so, so cool.'
Just days after filming wrapped, Molly went into rehearsals for Bad Habit, a show she and her flatmate wrote for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which she hopes will come to Glasgow soon.
'We want to bring the Fringe show to Glasgow, but it hasn't been easy,' she says, as she prepares to appear at this year's Fringe in the show Alright Sunshine.
'We've been trying for ages. But sometimes you've just got to pay your rent. That's why it's taken so long. But the show will definitely come to Glasgow at some point.'