Category Archives: B.A.B.E. blog

The merit of Casting Director workshops

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 […]

Complainer or committer?

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 […]

The birds and the be

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 […]

Nostalgia

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 […]

The woman who screamed at me

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 […]

Read to me (or being a reader)

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 […]

Have you created it…

    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 […]

Love a (food) challenge

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 […]

A couple of ‘chick’ things

So I was pretty furious about the whole iCloud incident. I went on a massive rant about these women, namely Jennifer Lawrence, having their personal pictures exposed to the world. They didn’t ask for it and they certainly hadn’t given us access prior to that imbecile getting them and posting them on 4chan. And here’s […]

How now brown cow

The age old adage from that brilliant song “don’t worry, be happy” is the truest thing I know right now. I am such a fretter. I can’t help it. I worry if rent will be paid on time, if I’ll keep making enough to be an actor, if I can afford babies later (yes girls […]