It’s been a funny few weeks. Amid gathering fears and precautions against the virus I prepared or the eight days filming that was due at the end of March. My campsite near the location was booked; my new tent arrived on the doorstep on the day that lockdown was announced. The weather has been really kind but no filming, no flying and a single exercise period per day are now the norm.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind. On the plus side: standing in queues for the supermarket or outside the post office, waiting thirty minutes just to hand a prepaid parcel across the counter is made much more pleasant by the opportunity to bask in the sun, lizard like. I’ve spent a lot of time upgrading my hardware to run BlackmagicDesign Da Vinci Resolve, resource hungry little bugger that it is; the learning curve is almost vertical but I am, very slowly, taking my first stumbling steps. Should be good when we shoot Bobby Stone’s forthcomng gangster feature.
An email last night alerted me hat 10 past 11 had been given and IMDB credit and, by default so had I. Great stuff! I then found that my self declared inclusion in The Midnight Court had given me a further credit and that Phil had submitted me as a main cast member for Malcolm and the Magpies. Suddenly I was a star with my own IMDB page and a ranking of 4 million and change – not as good as it sounds, it means that there are over four million people in the film industry more popular or famous than me.
So I started to rectify that, I have now muscled my way into both feature films and a TV appearance as (uncredited). I think that may well be my role for the foreseeable future. Still …Made it Ma! Top of the world …!