Outlaw

So, to compensate for rough tough Lever having gone to a flower show, I kept the yin yang (pH?) balance by hitting a bar in the city of Gloucester to be an extra for the new Nick Love movie, Outlaw.

The story goes that the police are just not up to the job of dealing with the rising tide of violent crime, so a group of guys take the law into their own hands!

Despite signing up for this film before there was even a cast list, it was a relief to see Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings, Ronin, Patriot Games, Troy, Sharpe (TV) ...), Danny Dyer (The Football Factory, The Business, Mean Machine, Human Traffic...) and Lennie James (Snatch, 24 hour Party People...) on the roster.

If you get to see the film next year, look out for the pub scene where the Outlaws hatch their plans... the guy behind Sean & Danny, hustling the fruit machines is yours truly; it'll probably be one of those "look, that's my elbow" moments, but who cares? It was a bloody good laugh :) As one of the lads said, it was like being in The Truman Show where, right on cue, we start going about our business whilst reallity focuses on the main characters.

Oh, and about beer on film sets... plenty of people were given poncy bottles of alco-pops but I was lucky enough to have a pint of beer... though it was that Kalliber non-alcoholic stuff and to make the scene a little more reallistic I kept swigging it - under the lights and being on this shot for about 4 hours it was warm, flat and disgusting.

And a big shout out to Rich & to Chris; we were the first three amigos there and the last three to leave. Oh, and Chris runs the Danny Dyer website BTW ;)

UPDATE: Tuesday - And here's a hilarious little news snippet I found on the BBC website about the filming of Outlaw... More tea, vicar?