Hello One and All, or probably just the One now...... I seem to do most communicating on my Instagram account. `When I say communication, of course, I mean just reading poetry. That's a great thing, tho, isn't it? Poetry. So much can be expressed, understood and communicated thru poems. I have tried writing poems, but I don't like what I write, a bit like watching myself on screen, so I keep it hidden. I hope you are enjoying them, tho. I am tempted to do longer poems, but I think people switch off after a while.
So where am I now? I'm in Dublin. I love it here. It is a stunning city, so many beautiful houses and the people are genuinely lovely. I realise that is a generalisation, but I am yet to meet a dud! I am working on a Hallmark series called 12 Dates of Christmas. Funny thing is, 2 days before I got this job, I said to someone that I would really like to do a Christmas film, never have. And that I would like to work in Ireland. Then, just as I was doing a meditation before the show in Richmond theatre, my agent called and said I had been offered it. I didn't even know I was up for it. I think my agent is just the best, I must say. He is not just a really sweet man, but gets properly involved in the scripts and is available to emotionally support and intellectually challenge. Also, he understudied me when I was Bassanio in Merchant Of Venice with Dustin Hoffman all those years ago. Anyway, he got me this job, with his great team, and I am enormously grateful. Because it is a really fun job! From the drivers to the make-up and hair teams, the costume, the camera depts and ADs, all the producers and of course the cast, they are a top team. Mae Whitman plays the lead lady and as her dad, I can't help but feel a vicarious pride. She is adorable and bloody good! I haven't yet worked with anyone else, apart from the young Kate, (15 years before the main action, when my grey was coloured in), and she too was lovely. Today I am working with Jane Seymour and tomorrow both Jane and Mary McDonnell. So I am the lucky bastard! As ever. Of course, Julian Morris and Lucy Eaton will complete the days. Yes, loving it.
I have to go now. Poem before pick up and then maybe, if I have time, a quick dip in the ocean! So far I have been twice. It's gorgeous. Cold, but gorgeous.
Have fun. N xx