Home and up early to lay down a tape. Trying to keep it understated as I get the sense this one has been round and round and the notes ask for it to be understated. I was tired though. Got it in 2 minutes before the deadline and my agent downloaded it almost immediately. Just in time. Sad to miss the last night of the festival, but prioritising in person auditions have caused me far more inconvenience back in the day. I will still fly the flag for the self tape audition. I got most of the festival.
Then I had mistaken today for a bank holiday and having discovered it wasn’t, I saw no reason not to change my plans. So I watched all the highlights for the final test match at The Oval, England vs India. It has been an amazing series but the Indian team stepped up at the end of yesterday and today and they worked so incredibly hard to force the series into the third ever drawn test series in the history of test matches. They won game 5 by 8 runs. Sure, Chris Woakes came on with his arm in a sling and knew he couldn’t face a ball. It was nail biting stuff and if Woakes hadn’t taken that fall before his first innings he would easily have gotten the 8 runs over two innings that we needed, but that’s the game. Largely I’m happy to see a drawn series if I look at the quality of the matches throughout. Absolutely brilliant cricket, as it should be. I only like test cricket, I like it because it is an endurance game, and I respect both sides utterly in that match up.
To honour the Indian victory I bought a great big takeaway Dishoom for Brian Maddy and I. I ate until there was no room left and there’ll be stuff to heat up tomorrow. Even after just a couple of nights in a field it has been lovely having access to my soft comfy bed and the friendly weird cats.
Tomorrow back in the world. Today was recovery. Worst possible time for an audition, when you’re knackered, but I’m okay with what I sent – perhaps lacking in spark but these are unnamed characters, they don’t want spark, they are doing a job in the script that pushes the story. I made choices that hopefully reflected that. I’m back to the drawing board now so I’ll take all comers.
AlBarclay 