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Studying th fragments - 27th July 2010
Roll up Psychoville fans - nearly time to come out and play again. Yes you know who you are; in the words of the late (?) Mr Jelly - "Don't be ashamed". We have been toiling the last eight weeks, filming our Halloween Special and second series for your consideration. It has been an absolute joy, and I believe we've captured something rather special. The last series ended with a cliffhanger (of sorts), that left some people hating us for daring to end our first series with some unanswered questions. "Short changed" and "ripped off" were some of the comments I seem to recall.
It was never our intention to leave people bemused and wanting the time they'd invested in the series back again. It has even been reported that we left the series ambiguous so as to "force" the powers that be into commissioning a second series!? Happily they did, but I can assure you, it wasn't recommissioned just because they had to find out what happens next! If only that was all you had to do.
Anyway, the series is in the can now, and thus begins the editing process. I shall be excited to attend and watch it slowly put back together again. Filming is the gathering of the pieces; editing the painstaking process of putting the captured fragments back together again. Hopefully without spoiling my timing. We have also worked hard on another detailed web experience to run alongside the programme and I hope that proves just as enjoyable as the first one.
It's hard to talk about the series and what's in store without ruining our surprises (already ruined by suggesting there are surprises. Damn.) and so I won't say anything to jeopardise any of those moments or all that careful work. Suffice to say, there are some great people joining us for the ride, and I don't think in writing a second series we have at all tarnished our first instalment. In fact, it only gets better.
But you will be the judges of that, come this October when you are treated to our hour long Halloween Special. The series is to follow early next year. I think. Sit tight. You are in for some real treats. (And one or two tricks for that matter).
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Hello and Happy New Year everyone - 14th January 2010
Hello and Happy New Year everyone. Just wanted to thank all involved in getting rid of the fake me from the world of Twitter. I was alerted to it and contacted Twitter and had to send proof of being the ACTUAL me, and happily the monster who was posting rubbish jokes and conversing with a small number of followers (let's face it, WHOSE interested!?) has been stopped. For now.
I have no desire in joining the Twitter world myself. I don't have the inclination or see the appeal. A conduit for triviality. Call me old fashioned but I have no interest. Very little ever happens to me that's worthy of sharing. But maybe that's exactly the point. Anyway, Im glad those that care know that that idiot wasn't me. As if!!! (Info - Reece then joined Twitter in April - the Twitter feed to the left of your screen is genuine.)
Psychoville 2 coming along nicely. We are well ahead of the game. Madness to think it's nearly written and won't be on TV for over a year! Please don't forget about it. It'll be worth the wait....or maybe I should let you be the judges of that. Come the time.
REALLY the real Reece Shearsmith
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Summer is icumenin! - 5th May 2009
Well its over a year since my last one - I actually tried to send this exactly a year to the day, but something went wrong and it didn’t get posted. The whole blog was about my waiting - deliberately - for a year to post again, precisely a year later, and other obsessive compulsive disorders that I am in the grip of. For instance - I also have to kick all four walls of any room before I leave it. Then wash my hands several hundred times. Costs me a fortune in Dove. (Strange why I should pick a US brand of soap. Slightly more comedic?) None of that is true by the way - except for the words.
Anyway, talk about digressing - I could now ACTUALLY begin talking about digressing, and thereby have done the very thing that the beginning of the sentence implies I will do - and look, in actual fact I have. But lets get back on track. Well, its been a year. Wow. Steve and I filmed our series “Psychoville” and we finally know for certain that it is set for transmission on BBC2 early-ish June. I think. No - it is. As to what year - that remains uncertain. Filming was exhausting - we had very little time, for what was an incredibly ambitious project - but we are delighted with the results. Incredibly proud of it in fact - and I really hope you will all like it. I think, and perhaps I shouldn’t say this yet, but what the hell, I think - or hope -it’s the best work we’ve ever done. Well, I would love watching it anyway. In fact, I have - several hundred times since we started editing it, right through to only last week, when STILL changes and tweaks were being made. Look out for more of Joby Talbot’s BRILLIANT music. The score for this programme is just amazing. I went - as I always do, to the orchestral recordings, and just sat there awestruck. Joby really is a proper genius I reckon.
I write this sat in my increasingly full magic room. My recently acquired monkey’s paw is
twitching with galvanized life in the corner, and indeed I have more commissions from Alex on the way. If you haven’t seen his art, go here and drool: www.alexcf.com.
Right well, I will try not to leave it a year until the next time. Hopefully some of you will see the preview of “Psychoville” at the BFI on 27th May. I am flying back from Cornwall in the middle of my holiday to be there for a Q and A, so hopefully somebody will turn up. However, if I see no ones booked - I‘ll stay and have a meal at Jamie Oliver’s instead. In the meantime, don’t get swine flu.
Bye bye.
PS I just ate a bag of Frazzles. Am I going to die? ...
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Hallo - 2nd May 2008
The Lone Blogger here again. Am rehearsing the Simon Gray play, “The Common Pursuit” at the moment. I hope that you can all come along and have a look - once I’m up and running. We’ve got lots of previews and I’d like to use them! The cast are great and it’s a very challenging role for me, which makes it both frightening and exciting. Sadly - because of rehearsals I couldn’t do the DVD commentary on “The Cottage”. Paul, the director was pissed off and so was I. I really pushed to be released for two hours but I was not allowed. So when I’m not on it - please don’t think I didn’t want to do it. I really did. In other news, Steve and I are all set to start filming our new series in October. The writing has been incredibly involved - and as ever we are being very ambitious. The story is an epic and hopefully clever one… on the page anyway. The exciting next stage will be casting the thing. Over the years we’ve had some great actors want to work with us and being megalomaniacal about playing all the parts we’ve never entertained it - with this, we can hopefully get a great set of people together. We shall see…
No collective “League” news to impart I’m afraid. We were approached to perhaps do something together for the start of next year, when it will be - get this - ten years since we burst onto the small screen! We are mulling things over - but nothing is definite - and in fact, come to think of it, I think maybe “they” said they didn’t want anything from us after all… (I think it was a way out of them doing a “Comedy Connections” on us. Once they’d looked into it, and realised we are actually a cul-de-sac.)
Anyway - hope you are all enjoying the springtime. I am going to be cooped up in the theatre for the hot months…(well, if they ARE hot, and not the “Day After Tomorrow” type weather we’ve been having here in the Capital.)
Most importantly, I was watching “Britain’s Got Talent” on Saturday, and who should I see advertised in a trail for next weeks hopefuls - but, and I’m SURE it was her, BLUE TULIP ROSE REID! It was seconds of her, but I think she was doing “How Much is that Doggy in the Window” like she did in the original documentary. I shall certainly be tuning in. Bugger, I can’t. I’m rehearsing. Will somebody tape it?
Take it easy chums. x
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Hello Blog Eyes - 12th Nov 2007
Just finished a short film for Channel Four acting alongside Imelda Staunton. She was brilliant to work with, and the little film we have done is very strange indeed. She told me a very funny story about being stopped in the street by a lady fan who said, “Oh, now you are a very good actress!” Imelda said, “Well thank you very much”, and the lady said “…not in everything”.
As some of you may know, I am Blooming again for the last two weeks of the UK tour of “The Producers”. I closed it in the West End, and now I return to close it in Cardiff. Hope those of you who didn’t catch me in it first time round (I don’t know if I mentioned I only did it for a year), can drag yourselves to Cardiff to see me singing and dancing all over again. Peter Kay is also returning to the show for the final week as Roger DeBris, so I expect a week of uncontrollable corpsing on stage. In fact, he has already told me it is his mission to make me laugh as often as he can!
I went to the recording of the orchestral score for “The Cottage” the other day, and it was brilliant! Such a great score - and so exciting to see the pictures put to music. There is a screening in December when its all finished and I can’t wait to see it all put together. The film is due out in the cinemas in March.
Steve and I are very excited that our new series for BBC2 is being co-produced by HBO. They wanted to be involved after reading the scripts which is great news as they really know their onions. We start filming Sept/Oct next year so I’m afraid you won’t be seeing the new madness until 2009.
Am going to see Mark in “All About My Mother” tomorrow night. Am really looking forward to seeing it - but more excited about the meal afterwards. Hope he gets changed first.
All righty then, that’s me done. Hope you all had a great Halloween, and didn’t get your palms scorched picking up hot sparklers. I did. (Have a good Halloween. Not the sparkler thing).
Good day to you.
Reece
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The Browning Version - 23rd May 2007
Blogads and Blogasses,
(not sure that fully worked?) Hello. Am watching “The Browning Version” on Sky+. Don’t know what is more upsetting; Michael Redgrave’s brilliantly sympathetic performance or the fact the memory on my Sky+ is down to 47%!! Ludicrous. I’ve got to get rid of some of those “LazyTowns”!
Some of you may know I’ve just finished filming a feature called “The Cottage”. It is Paul Andrew Williams’ second film, (he has had great critical acclaim for his first film “London to brighton”, which I urge you to see. It’s a hard watch, but really quite brilliant). This new film is very different from his last, but I hope equally gripping. Myself and Andy Serkis play brothers involved in a kidnap plot. It all gets very gruesome indeed. It was really quite gruelling to film actually, the most galling part was having my head shaved so I could create the “severely balding” look that Paul wanted for my character. Its not a pleasant sight, let me tell you. I’m probably the most horrific thing in the film, and when you see it, you’ll realise that’s saying something!
Anyway, all done now - and back to “Modern Men” which is getting yet another pilot for Channel 4 - this one WILL be broadcast, (the other was never going to be), and I start filming on Thursday. As I am decidedly un Victorian at the moment (I look like Phil Mitchell), I am having a full wig. It’s a great cast - Darren Boyd, Adam Buxton, Rosie Cavaliero, Lucy Punch to name but a few - and am enjoying rehearsing it very much. Some of the filming is back in Boothby’s old house - (Boothby from our Christmas Special), so it’s weird to be back there again, minus my bike!
Am looking forward to a break after this - I haven’t really stopped since ending The Producers and I have to have a rest. Lots of things coming up though. We, The League Of Gentlemen met the other evening and had a cup of tea in London’s West End. We discussed our next project - it seems we have hit upon something. Early days - but exciting nevertheless.
Now “House of Horrors” is on - the builder has not only made a botched job of all the guttering, but to add insult to injury, he’s now pissing in the front garden! They ALL seem to do that! Don’t let them out of your sight - and certainly not in your kitchen, cos then they use the sink.
Ta ta.
Reece
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Dear Blog People - 12th Dec 2006
One in January and now - almost a hundred years later - this one in December. Well as I reach the final three weeks of The Producers I can look back and say it has been the hardest eleven months of my life ... and that includes when I worked down a mine, was a full-time nurse and broke rocks with a mallet in a greenhouse during a boiling hot summer.
I think I've aged by a year at least - and although I'll probably never be this fit again - I am quite ready for a break. However - I can't have one - cos as soon as I finish on the 6th of Jan I have three days off and start filming a new Miss Marple.
Sadly, I'm not Marple - but it should be good fun, and positively serene compared to the energy required to "do a Bloom". Thanks to all of you who came and saw me in the show - and thanks for all your kind comments about my performance.
I have loved the challenge and I still love the show - I think it's the best musical in town. Those of you who didn't manage to get to see me - what happened??? I was on a year!!??? You had a YEAR!! Pathetic. Only excuses allowed are if you live too far away - like south London - or you are
in prison for murder.
Anyway - hope you all get what you want for Christmas - have you been naughty or nice? And Happy New Year to you all!
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Hello Blog heads... - 30th Jan 2006
Thanks for all your messages regarding my health. I seem to have given the impression that I am at deaths door for most of my waking hours! I'm not that sickly I promise! Anyway - just to say thanks for all the emails which apparently have come in regarding my being in "The Producers". I'm very excited and can't wait to start rehearsing. I have some filming before then however - for which I have had to grow a beard! Talk about grey. I look like Captain Birdseye! Hopefully they can spray the bottom half of my face black. (I'd rather be Bluto than Uncle Albert.) Right, time for my antibiotics.
See you all at Drury Lane.
Reece x
(PS I've got headache)
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So. My first “Blog”. I had to ask Mark what it meant... - 01 Aug 2005
I felt like a very old man - frightened of loud music and skateboards. Anyway…I am shattered. “As You Like It” is three hours of Shakespeare language, eight times a week and in a boiling hot theatre. Hotter still, when , like me, you have a duffle coat and scarf on. I get through by sharing a dressing with my friend Sean Hughes - another moaning Minnie like me, who makes me laugh a lot. We are half way through and actually it has gone very quickly - and as the LoG tour looms … I think I will actually miss scampering about in the forest of Arden every night.
As I say the tour is fast approaching and the writing going well. We are making ourselves laugh - which I always take as a good sign - (what would be the point otherwise). But getting us all together in one place becomes increasingly more difficult. We all arrived at the Universal offices today for a meeting to “sign off” on the DVD of the film, and it was like a reunion. We haven’t all been together for weeks and weeks. But the DVD is great. They have done a wonderful job with the menus etc… and it all looks beautiful.
Right well, it’s well past my bed time as I write this so I’m off. Will write again if anything actually happens to me. Maybe I’ll have a funny dream I can tell you about. Actually - that won’t happen. I don’t ever remember my dreams. Night night.
Reece x
Roll up Psychoville fans - nearly time to come out and play again. Yes you know who you are; in the words of the late (?) Mr Jelly - "Don't be ashamed". We have been toiling the last eight weeks, filming our Halloween Special and second series for your consideration. It has been an absolute joy, and I believe we've captured something rather special. The last series ended with a cliffhanger (of sorts), that left some people hating us for daring to end our first series with some unanswered questions. "Short changed" and "ripped off" were some of the comments I seem to recall.
It was never our intention to leave people bemused and wanting the time they'd invested in the series back again. It has even been reported that we left the series ambiguous so as to "force" the powers that be into commissioning a second series!? Happily they did, but I can assure you, it wasn't recommissioned just because they had to find out what happens next! If only that was all you had to do.
Anyway, the series is in the can now, and thus begins the editing process. I shall be excited to attend and watch it slowly put back together again. Filming is the gathering of the pieces; editing the painstaking process of putting the captured fragments back together again. Hopefully without spoiling my timing. We have also worked hard on another detailed web experience to run alongside the programme and I hope that proves just as enjoyable as the first one.
It's hard to talk about the series and what's in store without ruining our surprises (already ruined by suggesting there are surprises. Damn.) and so I won't say anything to jeopardise any of those moments or all that careful work. Suffice to say, there are some great people joining us for the ride, and I don't think in writing a second series we have at all tarnished our first instalment. In fact, it only gets better.
But you will be the judges of that, come this October when you are treated to our hour long Halloween Special. The series is to follow early next year. I think. Sit tight. You are in for some real treats. (And one or two tricks for that matter).
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Hello and Happy New Year everyone - 14th January 2010
Hello and Happy New Year everyone. Just wanted to thank all involved in getting rid of the fake me from the world of Twitter. I was alerted to it and contacted Twitter and had to send proof of being the ACTUAL me, and happily the monster who was posting rubbish jokes and conversing with a small number of followers (let's face it, WHOSE interested!?) has been stopped. For now.
I have no desire in joining the Twitter world myself. I don't have the inclination or see the appeal. A conduit for triviality. Call me old fashioned but I have no interest. Very little ever happens to me that's worthy of sharing. But maybe that's exactly the point. Anyway, Im glad those that care know that that idiot wasn't me. As if!!! (Info - Reece then joined Twitter in April - the Twitter feed to the left of your screen is genuine.)
Psychoville 2 coming along nicely. We are well ahead of the game. Madness to think it's nearly written and won't be on TV for over a year! Please don't forget about it. It'll be worth the wait....or maybe I should let you be the judges of that. Come the time.
REALLY the real Reece Shearsmith
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Summer is icumenin! - 5th May 2009
Well its over a year since my last one - I actually tried to send this exactly a year to the day, but something went wrong and it didn’t get posted. The whole blog was about my waiting - deliberately - for a year to post again, precisely a year later, and other obsessive compulsive disorders that I am in the grip of. For instance - I also have to kick all four walls of any room before I leave it. Then wash my hands several hundred times. Costs me a fortune in Dove. (Strange why I should pick a US brand of soap. Slightly more comedic?) None of that is true by the way - except for the words.
Anyway, talk about digressing - I could now ACTUALLY begin talking about digressing, and thereby have done the very thing that the beginning of the sentence implies I will do - and look, in actual fact I have. But lets get back on track. Well, its been a year. Wow. Steve and I filmed our series “Psychoville” and we finally know for certain that it is set for transmission on BBC2 early-ish June. I think. No - it is. As to what year - that remains uncertain. Filming was exhausting - we had very little time, for what was an incredibly ambitious project - but we are delighted with the results. Incredibly proud of it in fact - and I really hope you will all like it. I think, and perhaps I shouldn’t say this yet, but what the hell, I think - or hope -it’s the best work we’ve ever done. Well, I would love watching it anyway. In fact, I have - several hundred times since we started editing it, right through to only last week, when STILL changes and tweaks were being made. Look out for more of Joby Talbot’s BRILLIANT music. The score for this programme is just amazing. I went - as I always do, to the orchestral recordings, and just sat there awestruck. Joby really is a proper genius I reckon.
I write this sat in my increasingly full magic room. My recently acquired monkey’s paw is
twitching with galvanized life in the corner, and indeed I have more commissions from Alex on the way. If you haven’t seen his art, go here and drool: www.alexcf.com.
Right well, I will try not to leave it a year until the next time. Hopefully some of you will see the preview of “Psychoville” at the BFI on 27th May. I am flying back from Cornwall in the middle of my holiday to be there for a Q and A, so hopefully somebody will turn up. However, if I see no ones booked - I‘ll stay and have a meal at Jamie Oliver’s instead. In the meantime, don’t get swine flu.
Bye bye.
PS I just ate a bag of Frazzles. Am I going to die? ...
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Hallo - 2nd May 2008
The Lone Blogger here again. Am rehearsing the Simon Gray play, “The Common Pursuit” at the moment. I hope that you can all come along and have a look - once I’m up and running. We’ve got lots of previews and I’d like to use them! The cast are great and it’s a very challenging role for me, which makes it both frightening and exciting. Sadly - because of rehearsals I couldn’t do the DVD commentary on “The Cottage”. Paul, the director was pissed off and so was I. I really pushed to be released for two hours but I was not allowed. So when I’m not on it - please don’t think I didn’t want to do it. I really did. In other news, Steve and I are all set to start filming our new series in October. The writing has been incredibly involved - and as ever we are being very ambitious. The story is an epic and hopefully clever one… on the page anyway. The exciting next stage will be casting the thing. Over the years we’ve had some great actors want to work with us and being megalomaniacal about playing all the parts we’ve never entertained it - with this, we can hopefully get a great set of people together. We shall see…
No collective “League” news to impart I’m afraid. We were approached to perhaps do something together for the start of next year, when it will be - get this - ten years since we burst onto the small screen! We are mulling things over - but nothing is definite - and in fact, come to think of it, I think maybe “they” said they didn’t want anything from us after all… (I think it was a way out of them doing a “Comedy Connections” on us. Once they’d looked into it, and realised we are actually a cul-de-sac.)
Anyway - hope you are all enjoying the springtime. I am going to be cooped up in the theatre for the hot months…(well, if they ARE hot, and not the “Day After Tomorrow” type weather we’ve been having here in the Capital.)
Most importantly, I was watching “Britain’s Got Talent” on Saturday, and who should I see advertised in a trail for next weeks hopefuls - but, and I’m SURE it was her, BLUE TULIP ROSE REID! It was seconds of her, but I think she was doing “How Much is that Doggy in the Window” like she did in the original documentary. I shall certainly be tuning in. Bugger, I can’t. I’m rehearsing. Will somebody tape it?
Take it easy chums. x
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Hello Blog Eyes - 12th Nov 2007
Just finished a short film for Channel Four acting alongside Imelda Staunton. She was brilliant to work with, and the little film we have done is very strange indeed. She told me a very funny story about being stopped in the street by a lady fan who said, “Oh, now you are a very good actress!” Imelda said, “Well thank you very much”, and the lady said “…not in everything”.
As some of you may know, I am Blooming again for the last two weeks of the UK tour of “The Producers”. I closed it in the West End, and now I return to close it in Cardiff. Hope those of you who didn’t catch me in it first time round (I don’t know if I mentioned I only did it for a year), can drag yourselves to Cardiff to see me singing and dancing all over again. Peter Kay is also returning to the show for the final week as Roger DeBris, so I expect a week of uncontrollable corpsing on stage. In fact, he has already told me it is his mission to make me laugh as often as he can!
I went to the recording of the orchestral score for “The Cottage” the other day, and it was brilliant! Such a great score - and so exciting to see the pictures put to music. There is a screening in December when its all finished and I can’t wait to see it all put together. The film is due out in the cinemas in March.
Steve and I are very excited that our new series for BBC2 is being co-produced by HBO. They wanted to be involved after reading the scripts which is great news as they really know their onions. We start filming Sept/Oct next year so I’m afraid you won’t be seeing the new madness until 2009.
Am going to see Mark in “All About My Mother” tomorrow night. Am really looking forward to seeing it - but more excited about the meal afterwards. Hope he gets changed first.
All righty then, that’s me done. Hope you all had a great Halloween, and didn’t get your palms scorched picking up hot sparklers. I did. (Have a good Halloween. Not the sparkler thing).
Good day to you.
Reece
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The Browning Version - 23rd May 2007
Blogads and Blogasses,
(not sure that fully worked?) Hello. Am watching “The Browning Version” on Sky+. Don’t know what is more upsetting; Michael Redgrave’s brilliantly sympathetic performance or the fact the memory on my Sky+ is down to 47%!! Ludicrous. I’ve got to get rid of some of those “LazyTowns”!
Some of you may know I’ve just finished filming a feature called “The Cottage”. It is Paul Andrew Williams’ second film, (he has had great critical acclaim for his first film “London to brighton”, which I urge you to see. It’s a hard watch, but really quite brilliant). This new film is very different from his last, but I hope equally gripping. Myself and Andy Serkis play brothers involved in a kidnap plot. It all gets very gruesome indeed. It was really quite gruelling to film actually, the most galling part was having my head shaved so I could create the “severely balding” look that Paul wanted for my character. Its not a pleasant sight, let me tell you. I’m probably the most horrific thing in the film, and when you see it, you’ll realise that’s saying something!
Anyway, all done now - and back to “Modern Men” which is getting yet another pilot for Channel 4 - this one WILL be broadcast, (the other was never going to be), and I start filming on Thursday. As I am decidedly un Victorian at the moment (I look like Phil Mitchell), I am having a full wig. It’s a great cast - Darren Boyd, Adam Buxton, Rosie Cavaliero, Lucy Punch to name but a few - and am enjoying rehearsing it very much. Some of the filming is back in Boothby’s old house - (Boothby from our Christmas Special), so it’s weird to be back there again, minus my bike!
Am looking forward to a break after this - I haven’t really stopped since ending The Producers and I have to have a rest. Lots of things coming up though. We, The League Of Gentlemen met the other evening and had a cup of tea in London’s West End. We discussed our next project - it seems we have hit upon something. Early days - but exciting nevertheless.
Now “House of Horrors” is on - the builder has not only made a botched job of all the guttering, but to add insult to injury, he’s now pissing in the front garden! They ALL seem to do that! Don’t let them out of your sight - and certainly not in your kitchen, cos then they use the sink.
Ta ta.
Reece
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Dear Blog People - 12th Dec 2006
One in January and now - almost a hundred years later - this one in December. Well as I reach the final three weeks of The Producers I can look back and say it has been the hardest eleven months of my life ... and that includes when I worked down a mine, was a full-time nurse and broke rocks with a mallet in a greenhouse during a boiling hot summer.
I think I've aged by a year at least - and although I'll probably never be this fit again - I am quite ready for a break. However - I can't have one - cos as soon as I finish on the 6th of Jan I have three days off and start filming a new Miss Marple.
Sadly, I'm not Marple - but it should be good fun, and positively serene compared to the energy required to "do a Bloom". Thanks to all of you who came and saw me in the show - and thanks for all your kind comments about my performance.
I have loved the challenge and I still love the show - I think it's the best musical in town. Those of you who didn't manage to get to see me - what happened??? I was on a year!!??? You had a YEAR!! Pathetic. Only excuses allowed are if you live too far away - like south London - or you are
in prison for murder.
Anyway - hope you all get what you want for Christmas - have you been naughty or nice? And Happy New Year to you all!
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Hello Blog heads... - 30th Jan 2006
Thanks for all your messages regarding my health. I seem to have given the impression that I am at deaths door for most of my waking hours! I'm not that sickly I promise! Anyway - just to say thanks for all the emails which apparently have come in regarding my being in "The Producers". I'm very excited and can't wait to start rehearsing. I have some filming before then however - for which I have had to grow a beard! Talk about grey. I look like Captain Birdseye! Hopefully they can spray the bottom half of my face black. (I'd rather be Bluto than Uncle Albert.) Right, time for my antibiotics.
See you all at Drury Lane.
Reece x
(PS I've got headache)
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So. My first “Blog”. I had to ask Mark what it meant... - 01 Aug 2005
I felt like a very old man - frightened of loud music and skateboards. Anyway…I am shattered. “As You Like It” is three hours of Shakespeare language, eight times a week and in a boiling hot theatre. Hotter still, when , like me, you have a duffle coat and scarf on. I get through by sharing a dressing with my friend Sean Hughes - another moaning Minnie like me, who makes me laugh a lot. We are half way through and actually it has gone very quickly - and as the LoG tour looms … I think I will actually miss scampering about in the forest of Arden every night.
As I say the tour is fast approaching and the writing going well. We are making ourselves laugh - which I always take as a good sign - (what would be the point otherwise). But getting us all together in one place becomes increasingly more difficult. We all arrived at the Universal offices today for a meeting to “sign off” on the DVD of the film, and it was like a reunion. We haven’t all been together for weeks and weeks. But the DVD is great. They have done a wonderful job with the menus etc… and it all looks beautiful.
Right well, it’s well past my bed time as I write this so I’m off. Will write again if anything actually happens to me. Maybe I’ll have a funny dream I can tell you about. Actually - that won’t happen. I don’t ever remember my dreams. Night night.
Reece x
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