Actors

What a great photo of the mighty Huggy Bear live on stage. I gave a photo of another band, the Young Knives, to Sue, the casting director, today as a guide to what we were looking for.

This was good timing as we started casting today. We saw 18 different people for various roles, and with varied success. More tomorrow and a few call backs from today to try out for different roles. While the casting was it's usual fascinating process, we didn't turn up anyone who just 'was' the role. We did get that yesterday, however, with an actress we had to meet. She was absolutely perfect for the role, though I don't know if she'll take it or not. She has other possible commitments coming up, and I don't know how much we persuaded her. While it was a good, and fun, meeting, I'd run over from a studio record (it being my last day at work), so spent the first half hour being a little less than clear about everything as my head was still full of studio nonsense. Still, I have my fingers crossed. I thinkn finding some of the other cast may persuade her, but we'll see.

Start date is now April 14th. I'm hoping that's where it stays. It seems just long enough not to freak me out completely, and yet near enough that we have to get cracking.

Also, my leaving present from work was a copy of Filmaking for Dummies. I've already found three things in it that I hadn't really considered. I may have to re-cover it in something less damning and have it by me on set.