March began brightly with a slew of auditions and more bookings and a series of dates booked in now for Glasgow University Medical School roleplays (see photo below!) and again was reunited with loads of old friends from tonnes of previous shows and great fun indeed. Then back to London for an amazing shoot
with Royal Historic Palaces on their short film on the life of ANNE BOLEYN. I was cast in this a while back and drove to a wonderfully atmospheric and deserted Hampton Court Palace to film this epic tale
and one of my favourite costumes of all time! Worked with some top people on this job and was a real treat to play the Machiavellian Thomas Cromwell at long last! We have a family connection to the tragic Queen Anne and shooting in the very rooms in which she lived and Cromwell worked added a real
authenticity to the film. Shot all of my scenes and voice-over and straight back up to Scotland to start on another excellent indie Feature Film in which I was cast last month. Again, great fun to be reunited with old pals including Still Game's Sanjeev Kholi (see photo below) on this new film, a brilliant sci-fi story
entitled THE DRAW, written and Directed by Tom Ruddock. One of the nicest Crews and Casts I have ever worked with and really enjoyed both films I shot this month. Then into more GU Medical School roleplay work before heading back through to Edinburgh to shoot my final scene on THE DRAW.
Also managed to catch up with Paul Dykes at A STATE OF MIND Studios for a very positive meeting and then tracked back to the Capital to meet up with Irvine Welsh for another fun afternoon and great to see
him again and again laughed like a drain all day (see photo below). Back to Glasgow for more roleplay work with both The Wheatley Group and Glasgow University and more auditions, resulting in another
pencilled role for May! And, as mentioned last month, we got the lease for a new fashion store and managed buying trips to London before finally opening in late March! Having had 2 shops previously in Glasgow's West End, at Ruthven Lane and Queen Margaret Drive, we are delighted to announce that
our third ZICO FASHION BOUTIQUE is now open at The Barras Market, every weekend from 10am-4pm. Already having a ball here and great to be a part of this famous old corner of Glasgow and been fun seeing lots of old faces once again. Thanks so much to everyone who popped along this weekend. And
just time to add that BAD BEANS, our latest award-winning short film for the 48 Film Festival scooped an prestigious Audience Award at Filmapalooza in Los Angeles! Huge congratulations to all the fabbo
Dropshack Team who were there to pick up the award. Booked more work for next month and great to have the first screen work completed this month. And thanks to my agent IAM for the opportunities!
