As I mentioned at the end of last month's entry, June is a mad busy month, with travel all over the United Kingdom, another raft of roleplays and auditions and thankfully arrested the slide by booking some more feature film work for later in the year. Started off this month in London, shooting a brilliant Sci-Fi short
entitled TRACE, Directed by Jack Murphy and just a joy to work on. Really talented young crew on this one, super-focused and grafters on a tough 5-day shoot, including a night shoot on Day 5. We filmed this one in various studios and locations around London, from Bromley to Walthamstow, firstly at the fab
Perivale Studios, next to the old ground where I used to play football for Crystal Zoo FC many moons ago! Delighted to be playing the lead role of Daniel in this Dystopian thriller with a great cast and did some really lovely work on this one. Great to be back in London on a movie and with great people.
Again, one of the friendliest crews I've ever worked alongside and was a pleasure to do this job. We then moved on to Shutterstock Studios, an excellent and atmospheric location for lots of this film's interior scenes and spent three days here, some of the BTS photos are here, courtesy of TRACE Films.
Fight scenes and weapons, body armour, special effects and brilliant Make-Up from Becca Lymbourides completed a superb final day's shoot in East London and managed to squeeze in another roleplay job on Teams with NHS Lanarkshire from my hotel room, before driving back into Whitechapel to buy more
stock for the shop and catch up with my old friend Andy Stanson in a cafe nearby! One of the best Voice Over artists in the country and an old pal from A1 Vox days, we have been friends for years and always a right laugh catching up with him, see below. Delightful company before a long arduous night shoot of
fights and finally wrapped at 4.39am and straight back into the car and drove to Glasgow to open Zico's the next morning! In something of a whirlwind I then received a booking the following day to shoot another excellent Bollywood Feature Film, but meant another drive South, to Birmingham for a 9AM
call time at this stunning location!No rest for the wicked, so it was an all-night drive after closing the shop and then straight in to make-up and costume in 30 degree heat for a long but fantastic day's work. Got on
great with the Director, Dharmesh Mehta and he taught me some Gujarati to incorporate into my script!
I play the Mayor Of London in the movie, entitled MOM TANE NAI SAMJAY and stars Hemang Dave, Hardil Sangani and Bhavya Ganghi and was great fun to work on. We shot a huge scene to open the film, with hundreds of Extras and a huge Civic Reception scene to shoot with three cameras rolling at once
and a huge and welcoming crew. Loved working with the brilliant Malika Johra, pictured above in this huge scene, which we shot all day, eventually wrapping after more Drone shots at 9pm! Huge thanks to the cast and crew and especially to Anushree at AIJ Productions for another fabulous experience. This
was my 4th Bollywood epic and the 80th film I have worked on! Just great fun and am really enjoying the sheer diversity of work I am doing these last few years. Drove back to Scotland for more auditions and roleplay gigs and then to Zico's where another actor pal, Outlander's Scott Kyle popped by. Then to a
sunny Manchester for another fun Coloplast UK roleplay with the old gang and mad to be in town on
the night of Manchester City's parade having won the European Cup. Back to Glasgow for a quick stop before heading back down to The Borders for more Wheatley roleplay work and had great sessions on our mini tour of Stranraer and Dumfries. A mental busy month, but great fun and good solid graft done in June
and rounded off with the fun trip south with Ewan Hunter and Sarah Duncan, pictured above. Booked a couple of gigs for July and started prep on my 5th film of the year, with rehearsals booked and another trip back to Bristol to come!
