I was cast in a Hyundai advert. I had to wear a sumo suit for three hours and wrestle a stranger on a green screen. I had to sail a tent in a high wind and then let it go in a quad biker's face.
This is the result.
Two days of my life, that was.
Shot The Lady and the Cripple, in which I was playing the eponymous (if somewhat insensitively-named) Cripple, Franklin. It's a zombie film (well, short film), which pays homage to that genre by having lots of references to classic horror movies. I didn't know much about these, so was interesting watching films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the name of 'research' (my character is partly based on the whiney, curly-haired guy in a wheelchair in that film).
The production values of this were pretty damn high, with some frankly amazing prosthetic severed heads, blood and general gore. We shot it over 2 days, one of which was slashing down with rain and the other of which was prosthetic-meltingly hot. I'm presuming that this might be a reason that the film is still at the post-production stage...
Shot silent short film Headphones for the London Film School (dir. Jonathan Tomlin), in the lead role of 'Headphone Guy', which was fun. Interesting working in black and white and with no sound, and very limited film stock - made it stressful for the production team I think, but all I had to do was essentially walk and pull surprised faces.
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Shot a couple of scenes for feature film Mixed Up starring Sylvestor McCoy amongst others. Very enjoyable playing a mega-stoned hippy type, and was sad to hear that the film got shelved due to finance constraints or something before I'd had a chance to shoot a scene featuring me doing a highly offensive rap about Jesus. Actually maybe not that sad.
If you can spot me in this trailer, you get a prize. The prize is this. Enjoy. And no clicking before you spot, don't forget.
