“Only love will save you this time Hopelessly fighting to escape your mind And nobody can help you In this foreign land where loneliness can keep you down”
Cleo Sol
Wait for the baseline, trust me. A soulful groove for the journey…onwards and upwards…little more, little more, just a little more.
Headed to the Savoy Cinema Grantham on Wednesday evening for the premiere of Tin Hat Production’s Battle Over Britain ahead of the film’s official release today. I play Intelligence Officer in this latest feature from the ambitious Lincolnshire-based production company – great to see these independent film-makers growing from strength to strength. The screening and Q&A was followed by a little celebratory champers, much catching up and then the last train back to London…onwards and upwards.
Watch me show off a poker face in The Good Ship Murder on Channel 5 with Catherine Tyldesley (Coronation Street) and Shayne Ward (Coronation Street and X-Factor…yes, that Shayne Ward 👇)
I love it when an audition specifically calls for a South African accent (my own) and was absolutely chuffed to land the role of Keith Lomax, the Bitcoin-billionaire with a penchant for high-stakes poker. Lomax is eccentric, high status and a little dangerous – so it was a lot of fun preparing the role (and maybe playing a little more poker than was strictly necessary). It was also great getting to work with prolific TV director, Steve Hughes, who gave a masterclass in calm efficiency while on a very tight turnaround.
On set from left to right: Florin Piersic Jr (Nikolai Volkov), Jeffrey Mundell (Keith Lomax), Jacqueline Boatswain (Wendy Weston), Douglas Rand (Lee Stanard) and Rahul Arya (BL Zeebub)
Shayne Ward and Catherine Tyldesley lead the cast as an unlikely duo who team up to solve a spate of murders, with a host of other recognisable faces joining them for the eight-episode drama, which kicked off on Friday 13th October.
It was quite the adventure, filming a TV show on a working cruise liner alongside hundreds of passengers. My cabin was high up near the bow of the Virtuosa with a little balcony overlooking the sea – brilliant for watching dolphins skip across sunset swells or for staring into the mesmerising oil-blue ocean heaving below.