mostly david ephgrave

I’m currently killing time in-between two castings, sitting in a café adjoined to a bookshop in Central London. My first casting was at 11am this morning, and the next one is at 4:50pm; just enough time between the two to consider a different career in the interim. I’m sure I could fit in a short Post Graduate course somewhere, if I had a quick scout about. The first casting went quite well; it was very in-out (with a distinct lack of ‘shake it all about’). I went in with another actor who was a very nice chap – and afterwards we popped into a greasy spoon around the corner from the casting suite, to kill some time before he went off to another appointment - and I found somewhere to loiter for the intervening hours. (We both opted for green tea, so I guess it wasn’t that greasy.) While we were there he told me of how he’d recently secured a part in what has become a recurring series of adverts – and how financially it had turned his...