Monthly Archive: October 2014

The Missing started tonight on BBC 1 and as expected it shows all the signs of being compulsive viewing.  The brilliant James Nesbitt plays the part of the distraught father perfectly and the scene is now set for a compelling story to unfold.   The story is set around the disappearance of a child, Nesbitt’s son, whilst the family are on holiday in France.    My hair isn’t that long now as I had it chopped off for my latest BBC drama set in the late 1940’s which has just finished filming and due on T.V. in the Spring.

I just bought a book called Endgame, The Calling, by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton.  It is about a group of teenagers who have been chosen.  They are placed in different parts of the world and they have to enter the game to save the world. ‘Twelve ancient cultures were chosen millennia ago to represent humanity in Endgame, a global game that will decide the fate of humankind. Endgame has always been a possibility, but never a reality…until now. Twelve meteorites have just struck Earth, each meteorite containing a message for a Player who has been trained for this moment....

I have  cameo role in this production and I had the opportunity to act with James Nesbitt and it was great to watch him working.  I remember watching Bloody Sunday with my mum and I wasn’t sure if it was a film or a documentary because it was so realistic.  James Nesbitt has the skill to make you feel you are there in the room for real. It was like a masterclass. Here is an edited piece from Venessa Thorpe from The Observer newspaper and you can see the full interview here:- Interview with James Nesbitt For a television audience...

It was the last day of filming for me on the new BBC drama which will be screened in the Spring.  We all had a great time and I made a behind the scenes short film which I will put on here once the programme has been on  t.v. We all got on brilliantly and had fun.  I hope everybody does keep in touch.   Cameron, Finn, me and Aran  

I am going to Monaco for the Monaco Film Festival and this is why… Lady Luck is about a young boy’s attempts to win back his mother’s love. The film is inspired by a short story by DH Lawrence – ‘The Rocking Horse Winner’. Director: Jo Lewis Writers: Fay Garrett, Jo Lewis

Last week I went to BBC Maida Vale to record a drama.  It seemed like a comedy and I wasn’t sure what it was about so I googled it.  The Decameron is a collection of 100 tales by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio written between 1350 and 1353 Writers such as Shakespeare and Chaucer are said to have borrowed from it. The tale begins with 7 women and 3 men who move to a country villa to escape the Black Death in Florence. The group stays there for fourteen days and on ten of those days they each tell one tale...

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