The Best Days of Our Lives?

So it's been a while since my last post, but since no bugger reads this anyway it doesn't make that much difference.

It was a few weeks ago I applied to be an extra in a wartime movie starring Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller called The Best Days of Our Lives, and was delighted when I was invited along to the casting. The movie is about the poet Dylan Thomas and his relationship with two women during WW2. I signed up with the agency (free, which was a bonus) who took my details and measured me up for a future uniform fitting.

I was equally pleased when I was called up several days later to be asked to appear in two scenes, one in King's Cross station and another in a bar (location as yet undisclosed).

Sadly I did have to get my hair cut in a 40s-style military cut, which thankfully wasn't all that much shorter than my normal 'do. But it didn't help the fact that I was trying to grow it again. We were told the fitting should've been that day as well, but they told us when we got there that the fittings would be done on the day.

And the bar scene is due to be filmed sometime tomorrow. I've taken the day off work, although I'm not sure yet if it will be in the evening or during the day. Either way, it'll be an experience. I've even been working on my Welsh accent just in case they decide that I'm so awesome they want to give me a speaking role. Although I'm not holding my breath. Boyo.

More on this as it happens. Or more likely after, since as it happens I'll be doing it and too busy to write a blog post. Duh.