I got a little email recently from a little producer/director who wasn’t particularly pleased that I had emailed him. To put the following email excerpt (below) into context, I had spotted a really interesting non paid studio job that I really thought I might be right for. Granted it was a production email looking for a […]
When I was a little girl I went to a primary school where I was taught by nuns. Long before my arrival there these nuns administered punishment in a way now banned. Naughty children would lay their tiny hands out on the old wooden school desks and receive a belt over their knuckles or a ruler firmly […]
It’s an argument that comes up a lot. “Do I pay to be seen by a Casting Director (CD) in an organised workshop, or not.” Actors fork out money left and right and we never know where our next pay cheque is coming from. So do we spend that last months corporate job cashola on […]
There are two types of people in the world. Those who commit and those who complain. Indeed at first glance this might appear to be mildly simplistic. But think about it. People either get on with it and commit to their goals, or they complain and carry on about why it didn’t or can’t possibly […]
We get so caught up in being perfect we forget that we are born flawed. Anyone remember the film Gattaca? With enough money any person could born a certain perfect way and poor Ethan Hawke’s character, Vincent, just wants to go to space but his DNA isn’t quite right? I wonder why don’t I see the world […]
I wrote this post last week and have been so excited about sharing it. I am coming to the end of an amazing holiday and I’m heading back to London, and I’ve hardly thought about work, acting, at all. It’s wonderful. Can you believe I even wrote that. I am blissfully taking a break, escaping […]
It is a funny old world sometimes. I was standing at a fruit stall a few months back en route to an audition. It was the one out front of the fruit stand outside a busy tube station waiting patiently to place my order of a few pieces of fruit to snack on. No big […]
Please indulge me while I vent for a moment. Right now there are maybe a million actors around the globe trying to make it as an actor (I tried to google this information but it was impossible to get exact statistics), be that part time, full time, in school or just starting out. So if […]
When I ask this question (have you created it?) I don’t mean have you baked your favourite cake? Or have you knitted an amazing beanie. Although these are both positively exquisite things to do, and things I endorse wholeheartedly. But what I mean is have you created that thing that helps you not just exist as an […]
Many of you know (probably as much from my silly instagram posts of food glorious food) that I’m gluten intolerant and have kept to a very strict no wheat/gluten diet for well over five years now. My Gluten free B.A.B.E. page has lots of information for anyone wanting to venture down that path, or try […]