And that’s a picture wrap for me. I rang my agent afterwards. “I’m glad they booked the second day… One day and it’s easy to totally forget you’ve done the job. You barely get to know anyone as there are too many people all at once. Two days and you start to feel part of things.” Fine. But gimme a week or two next time.
I’m happy to have gotten back on the horse. There’s plenty to take away from all this. Crafty things about comportment and approach to the moves and lines. Time at the coal face, doing the thing. Nothing beats live experience. And brief flares of friendship. I was wrapped before the guys I’ve been working with the last few days, and they were pushed for time, so there was no time for all the farewells and number swappings. But there’ll be a screening I’m sure. I really liked them. The script really lifts off the page. I think it’s gonna be a banger. Happy to be involved. Today I was largely just filling scenes but within that I found some moments to be proud of. Let’s see if they make the edit.
These are the jobs I hold on for. Sure it has been a strange long run and there have been setbacks aplenty. But I’ve found an agent where I am understood and happy, and from there I can be seen in the right context by the right people. Things are shifting. There’ll be more.
Back at home I am running a bath and just watched Cunk on Shakespeare, and after a brief moment in the bubble the real world is reasserting itself. I’m supposed to be in Hungary but that went in favour of today. So tomorrow I’m gonna rest hard and long before going back to the house in the woods and looking at the real things I need to do.
AlBarclay 