So, Al the actor has now done his 3 days of filming on Still Life, my first foray in real acting and film. I mean, all us comics regularly video ourselves, and I’ve several videos of speeches I’ve done at Toastmasters, so is the big camera, being operated by a crew of people, with other people all around controlling things like light and sound and tea (and biscuits, never forget the biscuits), really that different? And I now realise that I have also done acting to a certain degree before, even notwithstanding the improv and stand up I do, so was this vastly unlike that?
Well, yes, and yes. And I’ll tell you why (not least because it would be a little frustrating to reach this point and be deposited. You clearly want to know or you’d already have stopped reading. I wonder how many have now stopped reading. Well, to the stalwarts who are still with me, you are in for a treat. I’d better deliver…)
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