So that's today so far, now back to yesterday! Lucy's friend, Louise, sent out a Facebook plea asking for extras for a Sport Relief video on Monday 23rd February and I said I'd do it. A couple of days before I got a text telling me the location and to be there at 10.30am. So, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, I duly set off to the address they had sent me. It was on the most residential street I've ever seen and I got a bit worried I was in the wrong place. But then I noticed a van full of equipment in the driveway and the front door was open a jar and I could just make out two pantomime horses dancing in the reception room. I knocked gingerly, was greeted by a nice man called Nick and was led through to the living room where there were already a few other people and which was strewn with party costumes. Having introduced myself to the other extras (who were all third year musical theatre students), the wardrobe lady started sorting out what we were going to wear and, after lamenting the lack of feminine costumes, apologetically handed me a gorilla suit, which turned out to be surprisingly comfortable! As well as me and the horses, there was also a pink lady, a skeleton, Captain America, Elvis, a bumble bee and a banana. The gist of the sketch is that a group of young people are at a costume party and the pantomime horses start dancing and then start 'shagging' and the male horses head falls off to reveal the pink lady's dad underneath and everyone leaves in disgust. As a sort of subplot I had to chase the banana around as well. My face was sweating so much by the end! Being in a gorilla mask is a tricky business. Fortunately, we got a substantial lunch break where we all taken to an Italian restaurant!
Once all the filming had come to an end I set off home on my own. At the traffic lights, four of the musical theatre students caught up with me and all hugged me goodbye and took my name to add me on Facebook, which made me so happy!
At home, I made tofu stir-fry; had a Skype chat with Josh about how bad all pornography is (in that it features a complete lack of foreplay and is therefore not very erotic, which kind of defeats the point) and came to the conclusion that I should start making it; laughed at Mrs Cochrane(my German teacher at school)'s Facebook status: This Panorama programme about alcohol which I am currently watching is very sobering! and then had a comment conversation about how giving up alcohol would be nice but sometimes only wine will do; read an hilarious script for a Youtube show that Mab and Tom had written; watched My Online Stalker with Lucy and Sofi, which was scary because her boyfriend was completely crazy and only got two months in prison; had a Skype conversation with my friend, Katy, in Australia who I haven't seen since October and watched the fourth episode of Sorority Girls.
So, over all, a very nice day.
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