Acting, football, anything!

I apologize for the lack of blogging recently! Been crazy busy with everything and anything!

Basically, it all started because of this lush weather we've had. The first day we had it, I got called out to play football with a bunch of mates. First time I've kicked a ball in something along the lines of 5 months? Since 5-a-side anyway. My god, I really felt it the next day. Every muscle was killing me the following day PLUS pulling my groin and hamstring, wasn't lovely it must be said.

Anyway, the following day I got invited to go out and about with Gocher, Lewis and Eugene. I was hurting but I pulled it together and went out with them. Ended up climbing Roundball Hill, highest point in Honiton. Yes, I was hurting like no tomorrow but I've got to say, it was probably worth it. Great sight up there.. Funniest part is that going through the woods, Lewis thought it would be cool to take another way to us. So we got to the top and he hadn't appeared... Strange? So we looked over the edge down towards the woods and we hear Lewis comically shouting something. We look at him and he turns around and he's covered in mud. Once he got to the top of the hill, he explained what had happened. To cut a long story short, he jumped on what he thought was a dry spot and he landed on it, sunk and fell backwards into some mud. I've got a video on YouTube of him telling us what happened, hilarious! Check it out!

I've been speaking to a couple of people recently who I have a lot in common with. But the strangest one is Joe Willis. I used to play football with him at Ottery and we always got a long pretty well but now, talking to him about football, TV shows, acting, politics (except from we support different parties) - we have LOADS in common and it's kinda scary. But it's cool talking to him about things 'cause we agree on a lot of things that are actually worth talking about, such as Scrubs and the new season is just one thing. We both had the exact same view on it. Was pretty epic!

Now acting! Yes, I attended a Skins open audition yesterday. Went so so well. It involved me getting up at half 5 and leaving Honiton at half 6. Don't get me wrong though, when we got there, there must of already been a good 200+ already there. It was freezing, we waiting in line for an hour and a quarter. It was just me and Hannah. When we got into the hall (where I believe the opening scene of season 2 of skins was shot [Maxxie dancing]). Had our photo taken and given a number. I think we must of been in that hall for 40 mins until our group of twenty was called up. We moved to the other side of the hall and I met this pretty sound lad who got separated from the people who he came with. He was a nice lad and I spoke to him briefly. When we got moved into the actual audition room, the guy in there was proper loud and friendly so all of a sudden, these nerves that were annoying me - were gone? We got separated into groups of 4 in our large group of 20 and I also got split from Hannah. We got given a scenario which we had to improvise with. We practiced for about 5 mins and then 3 people came in. Jamie Brittian was one of them. I'm telling you, this guy is Skins. Writing, director etc etc. Performing in front of him was quite daunting but there was this other lady who I can only presume was the casting director. She was quite brutal. Anyway, we acted our piece in front of the group and I can remember seeing her looking at me. We got half way through our bit and she stopped us and walked over to me. She now wanted me to act as the vulnerable character and place the bad feeling in me. I acted away and when we finished, I looked over at her and she was just looking at me, she turned away and wrote my number down (I didn't know what she was writing at the time). I can only think that she asked me to change character because she was testing to see if I could work as a different type of character from being the one I was originally - the step out one, the out spoken one. When all the groups finished she called out two people who she wanted to have another look at and it was these two lads. Then she called out three numbers she definitely wanted back in the future. She called out the first number, second number and then in the last one she said 'And 443'. I was muttering it as she was leading up to my number almost praying that I'd got a part. I couldn't believe it. Afterward, I went over to her and gave her my application and left. I was over the moon, spreading the word to all my closest friends. There's still a HELL of a lot to go through yet but to even be shortlisted is like... WOW!

Well basically, that's about it. I've sorter rambled but that was a one hell of an experience and can't wait to go back for the next 'round'.
Cheeeers!