Does Your Hair Affect Preparing Character Parts For Auditions? Until now, the women have dominated Afro Archives, we have a lot to say! This topic of preparing character parts was no exception: “You don’t have an office worker with afro hair” is a theme running throughout. In Afro Archives episode 7 the men give us […]
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Blesséd blessed – here we go again?
As the week progresses my thoughts are with Syria. Facebook posts look like this: “Here we go again”, “fighting other people’s war” and “how can we stand and watch?” We are on the verge of action and the end of the week will reveal all as the British draft UN resolution authorising “necessary measures” to […]
Bikes Bags and Being Alive
I’ve spent the weekend at the Orbital Brompton Bike Festival. This included watching the Brompton Bike World Champion Race – random, yes, but what an awesome weekend! The reason I was there was to help my friend sell her fashion cycling bags for her company, the Michaux Club. We camped over night and sold bags […]
Stage Day
What a day. I’ve been part of a round-table discussion on casting led by John Byrne (Careers Advisor at The Stage: the Entertainment Industry’s leading newspaper). Along with four other actors of varying experience we shared thoughts and knowledge about what really happens on the ground in trying to make a living in the acting […]
Kansi – unfold and ride
Yipppeeee! Thanks to my very awesome friend Rachel Bonney who nominated me, I’ve been selected as the first rider in Kansi’s “Ride it Forward” campaign. Kansi makes bikes that fold away so that you can carry them on the tube, in stores etc etc, basically live your life and take your bike along with you […]
Ah oui, a French film…
Well, actually Belgian…this week my mama and I saw “Our Children” directed by Joachim Lafosse. You know this from the start of the film so it is not spoiling it to say – the film tells of a mother who kills her four children. Inspired by a true event but in no way a story […]