BLOG – AMAZON REVIEW AND WRITERS’ STRIKE – APRIL & MAY 2023
Back in January, I worked on a series for Amazon - customer reviews read by thespians. In April, my video was released on the Amazon channel on YouTube. The first video they had put up back in February, had had two million views so I am hoping for big things. The...
BLOG – TAKING CONTROL – FEBRUARY/MARCH 2023
If you’ve read January’s blog, you’ll know that I’ve been struggling with the industry and the way it operates in Los Angeles. By the end of February, I was in a place where I wanted to quit all together so I decided the better option would be to take control. I...
BLOG – WHERE’S THE RESPECT FOR ACTORS? – January 2023
Over the last ten years or so, working in both LA and the UK, I’ve noticed there is a stark difference in the way actors are treated in each place. Every project varies, of course, but the huge supply of actors in LA appears to result in little value being placed on...
BLOG – IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE MURDER – November/December 2022
The film I shot in October was released on 2 December on the Lifetime Movie Network in the US. Titled, It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Murder, it’s a fun, festive, Christmas thriller so take a look and see if you think my character, Mrs Hobart, might have done the...
POST – RRR – YOU MUST SEE THIS FILM! – December 2022
To me, the absolute joy of cinema is when it encompasses visual spectacle with brilliant storytelling. RRR is an epic film that somehow combines virtually all the themes found in movies in just the one film: overcoming the monster, the quest, buddy love, voyage and...
BLOG – NEW YORK CITY AND LIFETIME MOVIE – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022
September and October were busy. In September, I flew to New York to take some meetings and finally decide if I might make a move to the East Coast. My trip was cut short as I was offered a Lifetime movie and had to return to LA early but while I was there, I fitted...
BLOG – YOU JUST HAVE TO LEARN TO GET THROUGH IT – August 2022
Month eight of 2022, and so far it’s been a strange year. Having worked on a decent amount of projects during the pandemic, this year has been very slow with a lot of near misses or being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Twice I’ve been offered work in LA when...
BLOG – FAMILY, INDIE FILM SHOOT AND SHORT FILM SCREENING – June/July 2022
Most of June and July was spent back in the UK where I was visiting family and friends and auditioning for European projects. Before I left for the UK, I was shooting on the independent feature film, Purple, which is a lovely story about how two strangers can meet and...
BLOG – THE ROLE I COULDN’T PLAY & PREPARATION FOR PURPLE – May 2022
At the beginning of May, I went to a screening. This was no ordinary screening – it was the screening of a film that I should have been in. I was, in fact, cast in the role of, Professor Clarke, in the Amazon Prime movie, Emergency, last year but because of quarantine...
BLOG – VOLUNTEERING, HIKING & AN INDIE FEATURE – April 2022
April continued in the same vein as the last few months – a lot of auditions, and I was on avail for another commercial but then released. But then I had two job offers through previous contacts. The writer, Aaron Therol, first saw me in the short film, Icarus. He...