Archive for February 13th, 2008
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Well I’ve had a good amount of auditions recently, all for women in their 40’s reminding me that I am actually rapidly approaching middle age - arghhhhhh. Unfortunately, nobody wants to give me their acting job at the moment. As you never get feedback from auditions it is really hard to know if you actually did something wrong .. although nine times out of ten they don’t choose you because you just didn’t look like the picture they had in their mind for the character. I remember when I got cast as ‘Agnes Tebbitt’ in The New Statesman, the Director coming up to me in rehearsals and asking why I wasn’t wearing my glasses … confused I asked what glasses? He told me he could have sworn that I had glasses on in the audition (which I didn’t) and that is why he cast me!!! Another time I got cast in an advert because the Director liked the way I fell backwards … it’s such a peculiar business.
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Andrew, my husband, has asked me to help him write about our experience of colon cancer. Therefore, I am currently in the process of trying to remember and write the bare bones of my experience and feelings in regards to his colon cancer. Andrew, was sedated a great deal of the time post op, to reduce the pain threshold, so he has asked me to fill in the gaps …. we hope to put these accounts both his and mine into a book .. so watch this space.