acting

[gavroche]

I did my first ever part as an extra in a film produced by an ex-pupil of mine, today. I was a taxi driver and had one line to say: " that will be £5.30 please". All done in one take!
But the best thing was that the leading actress ask me to teach her to drive in September, when she is 17. ( I taught the ex-pupil and he recommended me to her).
Anybody on here ever played a part on film or tv?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Apart from the cycling film I made (shameless plug) my brother and I recently spent a day as extras on a forthcoming film called "The Arbiter". We're in a nightclub scene where the internal shots were done in Shrewsbury and the external shots were in Much Wenlock.

I couldn't help noticing that the director's assistants kept moving me to the back of the shot so I doubt I'll be visible in the crowd.

Don't ask me what the film is about because I haven't got much idea, however the working title was "European Psycho" which might give a clue.

 

[Night Train]

I've been involved in Am Dram for a few years both on stage and designing and building the sets and painting the scenery. Not sure if I will ever be on stage again but my last stage build will be at the Lowry.

A couple of years ago I was also an extra in a music video I built the set for.

In a previous career I was also involved in some corporate marketing videos and being complimented by the director as I was always right on one take and I was consistent.

Not been on film or TV as such though I have been seen on TV in the background of a news report and as a kid I was on the radio. Nearly 40 years ago and when I was too young to really remember, one day I picked up the phone and dialed the number the radio station read out and babbled way about something SciFi to the answering machine. Ages later it seemed to me, though probably only a couple of weeks, a teacher at school heard me being broadcast across the country on Radio 1. I can't remember what I said and I have never heard it myself.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I'm a drama queen .....

 

[RaRa]

My grandad was an accidental extra in an old Hercule Poirot - somehow he wandered onto the set when he went for his morning paper but luckily in his flat cap and tweed jacket he didn't look out of place so no one noticed. If you look close enough in one of the Christmas episodes you can see his back with the newspaper under one arm

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Does acting like I give a toss count? Ah, diplomatic manouvres in the work place, what a drag

 

[Dayvo]

I was in two Christmas adverts for Norwegian Telecom nearly 20 years ago. They were shown on TV and at the cinema. A bit strange seeing yourself on the screen.

 

[yello]

I had a leading role in a Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) film....

...we were 12 or 13 at the time and it was Super-8... but the above statement is none-the-less perfectly true!

 

[Melonfish]

Some friends did their Uni media film based on a sensationalist news program called "shocking revelations"
the stories were nursery rhymes twisted slightly, for instance humpty dumpty was pushed, the prince rescuing rapunzel was in fact a drunken fool copping a feel (wicked black and white dream sequence of our m8 blodge charging round beeston castle with a sword!) snow white and the seven dwarves was a kinky dominatrix (my wife played it well) and it was presented by a rather handsom fella with a dodgy american accent (moi)
some of the out-takes were pretty damn wicked to boot.
tis on facebook, i'll have to get it on YT at some point, we all had a blast making it.
the re-enactment of humpty being pushed was a real egg wearing clothes on a lego wall and my m8's hand holding a darth vader action figure pushing him off. heh.
pete