5/10/2007

Got a teriffic part in a tv sitcom promo "Freshments" (hopefully be picked up, we'll see). Really funny Comedy Character filming with Hi-Gloss Prods and also did some filming for an independant in London and nearly had to share a coach home with these strangers Steve,Lynn,their doberman and a bagful of Carsburg Super (nearly) but thankfully sat in a crew van heated by the generator with a lovely swedish girl watching London wake up and got the train back.

13/11/07

New Website online as you can see.Hope you like it.

Met some great people through auditions etc  and have been researching new courses and skills that i've been planning to do after Xmas. Manchester has a lot to offer creatively and affordably and i'm going to use as much of it as i can to positive affect. Saw Hairspray (infectious energy!) and got to spend some time with my family in London.Hope you're all well and warm.

21/11/07

Got a Commercial today.

Oldham Theatre Workshops,responsible for many established artists may have it's budget slashed by 46% to help fund the Olympics.A Counciller from the Council said that they must take into account the fact that a lot of the members of the workshops don't actually come from Oldham.Work that one out??!! and does he think The Olympic games are made up of soley Olympians?

2/1/08

Happy New Year all.Had a brilliant time over xmas taking my nephew to meet Spiderman and plonking him on "Jaws" at Universal Studios and stayed at the funky Hard Rock Hotel.Castingcallpro (brilliant website for an actor) is coming alive again after the break and i've got my Goal list for this year stuck in front of my face along with my pictures of loved ones that have gone but who continue to lift my spirits when i need them.Let's break the backbone of January! Hope you're all well

15/01/07

Just auditioned and got the role in a TV Promo.Good start to the year and that will be a good addition to my showreel footage which is beginning to come in from last year.Oldham Theatre has it's funding for the next i believe 3 yrs which is fantastic and just received the spring intinerary for the Northern Actors Centre to brush up and learn some new skills,hopefully meet some new people and improve the audition situation in Manchester.Got a meeting with a director in London next week in Covent Garden,be good to go back to an old,regular haunt.The tourists never find their way to the back of St Pauls church there and it used to be very peaceful.

Also i'm rehearsing and about to film in Liverpool for F.A.C.T. which is the UK's leading organisation for the commissioning and presentation of film,video and new media art forms.It will be screened during Liverpools European Capital of Culture Year 2008 in various venues and internationally.Superbly written sci-fi film in the vein of Blade Runner/Metropolis that reflects both the spirit of this wonderful city and the warmth of its people.After a tough audition process (all improvised) i'm playing the lead male character,a challenging role and i'm very excited about it.

15/02/2007

Had a fantastic shoot in Liverpool and stayed at this strange,zany hotel above a recording studio with these Fatboy bean bags inside the room (but no-one to bounce on them with).You reached the room via this old Victorian lift to the room level that was like something out of The Shining.They are gonna premiere the film at F.A.C.T. before the opening of some Blockbuster in April (Ironman i think).I'll be adding footage from some work on the website as it comes in.Liverpool is buzzing and there's so much to do there.I'd love to do a part in Blood Brothers,if you've never seen this musical you've got to see it.I remember seeing it 18 times when the show opened in London with Con O'Neill and Kiki Dee and it's still very moving and funny and is a great show to take ya fella too especially if he's not theatre lover.I went to see Con O'Neill pick up his Olivier Award for Best Actor in a musical and he's very much an inspiration to me.Look out for "Telstar" with him when it hits the screens!

Also i'm appearing in a Comedy Play "Double-Click" which is a comedy set in a self-help group for Internet Addicts.It will be performed at the Salford Arts theatre April 17th - 19th. B.O. 0161 925 0111.Written by Sally Lawton who had a successful run at last years Manchester 24:7 festival,she's a big fan of Mike Leigh (a little cheesy pineappley one Ange) which brought a big smile to my face when i saw the audition and i'm going to be extending on a character i've briefly brushed on before and i'm looking forward to rehearsals.

21/03/2008

Finished the last few days on the Liverpool shoot.Glamorous locations included a backyard alley full of suspicious smelling puddles and a restaurant lowering it's rubbish over my head unbeknownst to me,i swear if i wore a toupee they would have happily swooped the crane and knocked it into the Mersey.The premiere is on April 22nd and is going to presented by Phil Redmond (Grange Hill,Brookside,Hollyoaks).First time i will have have seen myself in a main role at the cinema,for a short film it was an intense experience trying to convey a number of emotions over a small ammount of time.Learnt a lot from it in front and behind the camera in this one.

Also finished another short and just got a part in another filming after the play.Seeing so much of England now,i just need an American tourist on my arm.Rehearsals are going well.The poster is on the photo section.

Spoke to my 7 yr old nephew today.I was telling him about Virgin Galactic and about what happens if you're sick while in space etc.He said to me "Uncle Paul you fill my head with so much knowledge i think it's going to explode" Haha

9/4/2008

A sex addict,a man who thinks he's constantly reading the news,Busty Bernice,some of the Internet addicted characters in the Comedy Double-Click opening next week.Can't believe how quickly it's arrived and a healthy panic is on! Every rehearsal new comedy comes out of every single actor and it's been hard keeping a straight face (well i haven't and i break into smile before i walk into rehearsals i'm enjoying it that much).It's "Bang in your face" comedy with a touch of darkness and it's not so lengthy that your backsides will ache.The cast are very talented and distinct  and the writer/director Sally Lawton knows how to knock a funny bone and doesn't care how loud she taps it !It's at the Salford Arts Theatre,see above.

Also journeyed to Hull today to do some Green Screen test filming for an interesting project (more later) and i was taken to "The Deep",an enormous aquarium named as a tribute to the people of Hull who for generations looked to the sea for their livelihoods.The director (Robert king) kindly showed me around and both being huge fans of "Jaws" stood agog at what must have been the biggest shark i've ever seen,bigger than anything i've ever seen in the U.S. or Bahamas.It was so quiet in there and this monster of the deep sort of just floated there in front of us in this sun speckled tank 10 metres deep.It was so ace! Next door was a tank full of "Hagfish" .....not a very pc name for a fish is it?

18/4/2008

Crikey what a week.Met up with the cast of Double-Click Wed morning the day before we were due to open to find out one of the actors had threw a diva strop by text and literally didn't turn up.We were all ready for the Technical Rehearsal and were in shock.Can you imagine the panic we were in.All the hard work that we had put in.You know i've known people to quit and sometimes understandably but this was sheer unprofessionalism at it's worst and i wouldn't print this if there was anything justifiable about it but there really wasn't.Sally Lawton,the writer of Double-Click stepped in to play the large role and you may think that yer ok she's the writer so she should know the words but her mindset was on direction and production which is a massive task of it's own.

Well Blimey,you know when you see someone do something and you're left a bit gobsmacked,well this was one of those times.In my eyes it was a tour de force of positive thinking,pure adrenalin and artistic acheivement.I've seen 1 person step into the role of Bathsheba in Far From The Madding Crowd over a week but i'd never seen this.Outstanding in the role,unforgettable and inspirational! and an upcoming fresh,edgy,writer thrown in that Manchester will be very proud of.Just you watch.

The character i'm playing in Double - Click has a bladder issue.Preparation wasn't an issue.I got on the bus to come home "that" Wednesday night full of coffee and couldn't find an open loo anywhere.So the sweats started on the bus and i watched in horror as the bus driver stopped at a corner,let a drunk on who went on to ask him if he wanted "anymore" dodgy toothpaste.The driver replied "No my wife didn't like it as it didn't have coloured stripes".Seriously.The bus driver then happily waited a few minutes as the drunks drunken friend took a wee on the corner while i nearly passed out.

22/4/2008

There is no glamour in this job but there is loads of joy.Everyone is entitled to it,some have it stifled from our outdated school system that still fails to recognise every individual has gifts and worth in life.They just need nurturing with patience,recognition and positive action.What is worthier,teaching a teenager a subject that they sleep through or trying to recognise and stimulating their passion (without compromising the obvious neccessary subjects),give them more of what they want and need to learn to help achieve want they want out of life.It can't be that hard,most young adults know whether they are good with their hands,minds or hearts.What does the government think this does to the moral of both teacher and pupil,it's just a huge lesson in timewasting and low confidence.Rant over ( i could go on forever about this subject) it amazes me that people have attained a personal joy in their life whether it's a 100 yr old man running a marathon to John Glenn going into space at 77.Health permitting anyone can seek to uncover their worth at whatever age.I hope this doesn't sound patronising,it isn't meant to sound like that.When i see kids bullied,women silenced,men forced to stay in unhappy jobs.it makes my blood boil that we have missed out on their gifts through stupidity,greed and ignorance.Who knows how this earth would be if they were to be encouraged rather than drowned whatever background they come from.Anyway i seem to have found my joy via a long rocky road and through others support and my own personal belief system that was once knocked out of me but i've grabbed it back and tonight i'm going to see myself at the pictures for the first time,i'm incredibly nervous if what was going through my head creating the character comes out in a short film,very excited and the quiet little kid who was always first in line to watch Star Wars on his own is giggling is head off in disbelief.Wish me luck and stay joyful !

 26/4/2008

The above was very exciting and am glad to have played Lennon,he was a character of many layers,with the time restraints of a short film you can only see parts of him but i always think that if you've gone through the layers of a character as much as you can with the time hopefully some soul will come through in the finished cut.A good friend came with me and we lit some candles in the beautiful Protestant Cathedral,heard the tenors and chatted away to people at the party about the films.I saw Mike Leighs "Happy-Go-Lucky" today.It was brilliant and from an actors perspective it must be a consuming journey working with the great man.I remember working in a call-centre and Eddie Marsan,who plays the driving instructor was working there,i didn't know him and this girl was telling me how hard at it he was to be a jobbing actor amongst lots of actors working there.His perseverance stood out and is a lesson learnt in "waiting by the phone for your agent to ring".He was brilliant in it and i'm so pleased for him.I also saw "The Glass Menagarie" at The Royal Exchange with Brenda Blethyn,it was the first time i'd been in that Theatre and the performances were architected beautifully.

I'm working on some characters at the moment.1 works in a high profile firm,has lost his wife and is re-assembling his life so if the weather stays ok i'll get my coffee,find a bench near a high profile firm,watch the people,make my notes and learn the lines and get the odd funny look.You never get lonely when you're trying to "find" someone.

15/05/2008

My dad went into the supermarket today.He saw a member of staff stacking Potatoes so he went up to him and asked him where the runner beans were. "Don't ask me" the staff member replied "I'm just doing the vegetables"

My showreel is finally under way and i've got copies of some work and will be collecting more in 2 weeks.I'm going to have a bash at doing it myself,have bought some software but am having some problems with it that i will iron out when i stop shouting at it.

Enjoy the weather..it feels like a new chapter is starting

 

2/07/08

1st Showreel is up on the media page now.I'm no editor and as more footage comes through i'll be able to add things but at least i have something on there now.If you have any comments/suggestions on it please let me know.

I'm in another Comedy directed by Sally Lawton http://mirthinmanchester.blogspot.com/ (Sally's blog) called "Battered Ego's" which is an old fashioned Lancashire Comedy set in a chippy and we will again be at the Salford Arts theatre at the end of July.After a few hiccups we've settled in with the show now and a good rapport is showing and the cast are very positive.Now a showreel is finally ticked off my goal list i can move on to other things i have planned which involve screen techniques and new skills.

Catalina: A New Kind of Superhero which is a feature film about a transvestite Superhero is having its Premiere in August which i'm going to.It was my first Professional Voiceover in a film and it was for the Navigator Alien.It's full of flying transvestites,pink shoes,spaceships and aliens and looks very funny.La Cage Aux Folles meets Flash Gordon.

I'm now very pleased to be under the Management of Jackie Martin at Elite Talent.

Guestbook Entries

Joey *Pinnacle Man*   Apr 07 2008 6:42 PM
Hey Paul, Its joey (Dir) Pinnacle man

I'd just like to say great work on the film! you did a magnificent job, always getting in to role, and giving it your all in every take.
Could'nt have picked a better Leading actor
Highly Recommended!
See you at the premiere
Joey.

Roozbeh Behtaji roozbeh.behtaji@gmail.com  Apr 03 2008 10:18 PM
Hi Paul, great website. We've nearly finished editing London Transfer, in a month or so I think we'll have it. We'll arrange a screening in London in the summer, hope you can make it. I'm really happy with your performance, as I told you back then I believe that you have a natural talent for acting. Keep up the good work!

Hayley Hunt hayleyhunt1@aol.com  Nov 14 2007 11:38 AM
Fantastic Paul! You are truly a proffesional actor. Love the photos and your cv is blooming.I personally would like to see a photo of you laughing as your so comical. Very proud of you. Stay focused honey it working!!! H x

Rebecca Hayes rebecca.hayes@btinternet.com  Nov 14 2007 12:25 PM
I'm so proud of all your hard work in everything you have done this year.I agree with Hayley, picture of your smiley face will add more for your personality.Keep workin hard, it will reward you in no time xxxxxxxxLove u loads xx

Thomas tcisecki@sympatico.ca  Dec 13 2007 1:16 AM
Brava! All the best!

Sidi coventgardenfx@btconnect.com  Feb 03 2008 7:07 PM
Great voiceovers for the cockney characters, like you to audition for us at Covent Garden for the forthcoming opera of oliver twist.Can you sing? Look forward to hearing from you.
Regards Sidi

Alan Brent alanbrent51@aol.com http://www.Alan-Brent.com  Nov 14 2007 9:32 PM
Excellent web site, Paul. I hope that it brings you more success.
Alan

Freeman enlilmelymn@izmail.net  Feb 26 2008 12:09 PM
You make my day!

Jonathan Bland  Mar 21 2008 11:23 PM
A star is born.

Your name will soon be up there with all the 'greats'...such as Guinness, Geilgud, Burton, McKellen....and Norris from Corrie !!!

Keep going, and never lose sight of your goal.... you'll make it.

rob  May 01 2008 8:00 AM
hey paul, lookin good

sheila and mummy sheilawright@hotmail.com  Feb 04 2008 5:18 PM
Hi Paul, just sitting in my living room looking at your website, very impressed. Mum said that she bets you're glad that Liverpool is over but it is good work for you.

Good luck

Jackie	Jun 29 2008 7:30 PM
Really enjoyed looking at this site Paul. Look forward to seeing you on Tuesday

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