I noticed a plea from an agency on facebook. They wanted someone to appear in a vegan advert but weren't going to handle the job themselves as it was a favour to a client. Although I didn't belong to this agency, I thought I would apply. After various emails going back and forth I was invited to a costume fitting at the American church in Tottenham Court Road. As usual I arrived early and tried to get in.... The front door was locked and had no sign of a bell to ring. I wandered around to the back to another door. This time there were plenty of buzzers to press for attention but which one?!
Eventually somebody went in and I grabbed my chance and ran in behind. No signs anywhere. I could hear singing downstairs so thought I could try there and at least I could find somebody to ask.
It turned out to be a rehearsal for the musical "We Will Rock You." Well, I didn't think I was quite suitable for that one so tried another room and found somebody connected with the vegan advert. At least I knew i was now in the right place! I was to wait upstairs until they were ready for me. Where there's a costume fitting, theres a wait. An older man joined me and told me that he had been for a casting for the advert and that everyone working on it was supposed to be vegan. Oops....
I was finally called downstairs and walked in to find a young man in a boiler suit with fruit being attached to his groin. OK, so now I was getting worried - what on earth was going on and what would be expected from me?! One of the costume people must have seen the look on my face and said,
"Don't worry the fruit and veg are only for the men."
Thank goodness for that. Eventually myself and a younger lady who was we supposed, meant to play my daughter were asked to sit down in a couple of chairs and pretend that we were in a car looking at the man in the boiler suit. That was it. Nothing else. I was surprised as they were paying for me to go to the costume fitting and really they could have saved their money. As I signed the release forms I was given the date for the filming which was to be 2 days later at a different location.
Friday arrived and I got to location in time for a coffee and a chat with a couple of the others. The girl playing my daughter turned up and quietly explained that she wasn't vegan either. We were called off to the minibus and driven to location which turned out to be a car wash garage. Our guy in the boiler suit was dancing to music with the various veggies and fruit moving in all their full glory! I began to wonder what was expected of us.... We were called in and asked to sit on a couple of chairs so that we looked as if we were the car wash customers. I thought it looked a bit odd personally as the boiler suit guy was doing such a good job I felt that we were somehow interrupting what was a good bit of filming. Anyway there we say until the Director asked us to go and dance around the boiler suit man. Now, I can pretty much do anything without too much embarrassment thanks to acting classes but this poor girl who I was with was totally mortified. She didn't act at all and in fact it turned out that she was a friend of the crew. Anyway, we danced away much to everyones amusement and were finally released for lunch - veggie thai curry which is a particular fav of mine so when the Director came and gave thanks to us and to release us, he also asked us to stay for lunch. Yummy!
Here's the link - its no surprise that we were cut out but it's still a great watch!
http://youtu.be/OYwjjTuZsxM
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