👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 This really is vital: UK actors are receiving lower statutory payments for works shown abroad (delivered to us via the hard-working
@BECS_Performers
) because of losing out on reciprocal agreements that were severed by Brexit. Follow
@BECS_Performers
to find out more.
@JAHollingworth
spoke for BECS at the
@CommonsCMS
Inquiry into Creators’ Remuneration. He explained how BECS pymts are reducing after Brexit.
We urge the Gov. to introduce the Smart Fund in the UK thus providing revenue when work is used here & also protecting overseas pymts.
Episode 2 of
#MrBatesVsThePostOffice
is tonight at 9pm if you’ve not already watched the lot
@ITVX
. The second episode elegantly sets the 3rd & 4th episodes up. And it’s a heartbreaker. Don’t miss it. Be angry.
The story of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice continues on ITV1 tonight at 9pm
If you missed the first episode you can stream it now free on
@ITVX
#MrBatesVsThePostOffice
Thanks for all the messages about
#Rebecca
and
#TheQueensGambit
- I’ve been in a very different costume back on site labouring to pay the mortgage. Swings and roundabouts, eh?
What a pleasure it’s going to be arriving in
#Portwenn
for series nine of
#DocMartin
. Two lovely days of read-throughs with an indecently talented bunch. It’ll be strange being back in
#Kernow
without a tricorn but I guess I can just wear one in my own time, right?
Loved finally seeing
@NapoleonMovie
last night. If you’d have told young me growing up on benefits watching my bootleg copy of Alien that one day I’d be in a Ridley Scott film I’d have laughed in your face. Thanks to all
@KRJCastingLtd
for the opportunity.
Picture perfect day to cross the Tamar en route to finishing up my episodes on this series of
#DocMartin
. Lovely to be back in
#Cornwall
. So many memories of
#Poldark
.
It’s ace seeing everyone’s shiny new jobs and first days and nominations on here. I mostly only post the good stuff too. But if - like me - you’ve reached the end of the month with nary a 2023 job in sight, that’s alright too. It will come. You’ll be okay. We’ll show them.
Making my
#Vera
bow this Sunday
@ITV
8.10pm in the brilliantly written second film ‘Cuckoo’ with a crack team of guest actors. And me.
Promise I only borrowed the kit for a *handful* of late night shifts at the Cha-Cha lounge during shooting.
I’m humbled to have had a ring-side seat this past week watching the long shifts, hard work and cheerful dedication of the NHS HCAs, nurses & doctors who took a stroke victim & turned her into a survivor with a very high chance of complete recovery. Here’s mum finally home. 💙
"I was a huge fan of the series and so it was a real privilege to join the show."
@JAHollingworth
tells
#Sunrise
the upcoming season of The Crown is "really exciting".
Chuffed to finally sneak into a
#SallyWainwright
drama - even if it’s just for the last two episodes of
#GentlemanJack
- used to laik out at Shibden as a kid so it’ll be an odd experience being back with cameras.
Right then! I declare Christmas officially open! Thanks for following this unpredictable stream of consciousness*. It’s unlikely to improve in 2019. I hope the holidays are a blast. See you all in January.
*insert appropriate invective here
What an absolute pleasure it’s been doing my stint for Northumberland and City police with
@BrendaBlethyn
@kennydoughty
. The rumours are true - it’s the nicest gig in telly.
#MrBatesVersusThePostOffice
starts tonight & is on consecutive nights this week at 9pm
@ITV
. It is brilliantly written & full of excellent actors doing wonderful work but *do not miss* the documentary that follows it on Thursday night. More info 👇🏻
I’ve been out of it for a while getting over having had Coronavirus. So - exactly 3 weeks too late - here’s a link to the scabrous, demented
#TheCorrupted
. We recorded it right to the lockdown wire
@BBCRadioDrama
, before the world went totally mad.
Years ago I did a cameo in
#Endeavour
with the excellent
#ShaunEvans
- it was a massive pleasure being allowed back to play a proper part, and directed - selflessly, brilliantly - by the man himself. This Sunday night. And - yep - that’s lockdown weight 🍺.
Lads I’ll be honest I’m just back from a fourth birthday party that started at ten a.m. - I had four sausages, two sausage rolls and half a Coke and I feel like I’ve been out on the lash all night.
Fascinating watching this session
@CommonsBTC
. I’m proud of the small part that our drama played. Great to see the chair asking for Alan’s input on amending the upcoming legislation to speed processes up and better serve wronged subpostmasters. More needs to be done!
Took this at wrap on my first day on Vera at 2.30am this morning. Seems the northeast has abandoned the popular concept of ‘night’ in favour of Scandinavian perpetu-gloaming. It’s probably something to do with Brexit.
Polzeath was looking beautiful Friday night and it was lovely to be back in
#Kernow
on
#DocMartin
. Happy Easter folks hope it’s been full of sunshine x
Just jumping in the car having wrapped in Belgium to drive to glorious Bromley to shoot on something else in the morning. No humblebrag here - it’s not always this busy for me - but it’s glorious when it is and such essential fuel for the quieter times.🤘🏻
You can’t keep a Yorkshirewoman from the rugby! Despite having a stroke yesterday she battled the 10 metres from her hospital bed to the day room to cheer on
@EnglandRugby
. Her man of the match? Leigh Halfpenny. ‘Because he’s the best looking.’
Mostly this year I’ve been paid for either growing or not growing my facial hair. Here’s hoping for a full beard in 2020. Happy new year you filthy animals X
Half the time I was filming
#CallTheMidwife
#ChristmasSpecial
I was in eye-popping pastels, the other half I was gutting lath and plaster out the new gaff. Never been more pleased to be on set - especially in the teeth of Covid protocols & with splendid
@KatieLyonsUK
Can’t help but grieve at 7.30 that no shows are going up across the country: that so much effort, love, passion & obsession doesn’t get nerves, a five minute call, an interval or a curtain call/nod to the box after. I feel like all the churches I ever believed in closed as one🖤.
After 12 years in the business I can’t figure out if stage management think I’m deserving of a reserved chair - or whether they’re worried that my ageing knees are too weak.
I couldn’t be prouder of my eldest strolling back into the playground this morning like he’d never been away. To all fellow home-schooling parents - whether you’re still hard at it or in your first hours of being relieved from duty - 👏👏👏👏👏.
#BackToSchool
For the first time in the last forty auditions I’ve done I was given the option to go in today & tape with the casting director. I’d forgotten the wonderful sense of community & shared endeavour that comes with that. It’s so vital to what we do. 👏👏
@emily_brockmann
@CastingLucy
What solace being in the company of hard-working young actors - many who have overcome shitty odds to begin their training - on a day I get shitty updates on recent auditions. I’m supposed to be the one inspiring them but it’s very much the other way around.
And then there’s that moment you hear from the designer on a film you’re shooting in August and you nearly burst into tears because you thought it would be a year or something until that happened and the poorhouse night not have put them through anyway. What. A. Fucking. Year.
Hadn’t realised how deeply cold weather fear is striking - even here in Manchester - until I heard two lads in the bar discussing the possibility of actually wearing long sleeve shirts out tonight.
Thankfully they dismissed the notion as fanciful.
#DunkirkSpirit
#TheNorth
Thoughts with my grandfather Dr John Stuart Hollingworth who landed as a Captain in the RAMC several beaches from where he should have been, got totally lost, helped as many as he could & then hid under some corrugated iron with a chaplain during the ensuing shelling.
#DDay75
Our show
@NationalTheatre
couldn’t have gone ahead tonight without the incredible
@egbarber1
stepping in to cover one of the parts due to cast illness. She was so good the audience were confused as to why she merited a special bow at the end! Total. Hero. ❤️
Well that was the hardest year to work as an actor that I can remember! I’m very grateful for all the brilliant jobs I was lucky enough to work on in 2023 but I’ve never known so many amazing actors out of work. Whatever job you do, here’s hoping 2024 delivers for all of us💪🏻👊👊