CLARKE: THAT F*CKING GUY!

12th October 2010

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JOB BLOG 2: - SHORT AND SHORTER

So it’s 1999-2000 and after playing the lead in the 6 part series Metrosexuality which has just come out. I thought I’d just get acting jobs. Like most actors, i thought that’s what would happen and of course thought i was good enough.

Not so.

There was no acting work after filming it, and no acting work after it came out. so after filming it I was straight back in the gym hustling and working my arse off, cleaning peoples sweat of gym machines, doing programmes and training etc.

This was also the time I started really thinking about taking my writing seriously. I had always written stuff but didn’t really know how to properly write a script. I knew that I wasn’t getting acting work, but even looking at the things that were on TV and film I was thinking would I really wanna be doing that or something like…? I didn’t know what but knew that it had to be different.

I bought a whole bunch of screenplays, saved up for a while, bought screenwriting software and started writing a few things, a few ideas. The first script I wrote was with my mate Geoff (BIG UP GEOFF) and started life being called Remembering Jessie and ended up being called the perfect little life. It’s still sitting on my laptop.

Maybe I’ll let you read it one day.

Anyway I was beginning to think about going back to Uni when… Rikki beadle blair saved me… again.

He was the one that gave me my first ever job… (read JOB BLOG 1) He came back to me with two short films. The first he wrote but didn’t direct. It was called NATIVE. I played a Jamaican immigrant in the UK in the 60’s it was based on his life and I was in it with Will Johnson.

The second, he directed. It was written by a bunch of students for the big breakfast short film competition and was called TAKE2 it starred me, https://twitter.com/preeyakalidas and a young man called https://twitter.com/Ashleywalters82 yep, I’ve known him that long. Not a lot of people know that.

People have tried to play us against each other over the years… but you know what, he’s a legend. you all failed. I ain’t a hater I like and respect him more than most because he’s real, if it was not for him a lot of films that people love, a lot of opportunities that certain people have had, including me, would never have happened so BIG UP ASH! Always.

Anyway… with the hype of Metrosexuality and two short films… I decided to try and get an agent. I got my head shots done, bought a book called contacts and sent 50 tapes and headshots out to the agents out there in London and another 15 to casting directors.

I only got 2 replies from agents… Only one of them wanted to take me on, so I went with them.

I was now an actor with an agent… Surely things were gonna change now right?

Wrong!

NATIVE:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285769/

TAKE2: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286194/

Look out for JOB BLOG 3: - DOING THE ROUNDS

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