Saturday, 17 September 2016

I'm going back to Germany in November

Guten tag guys, I've got a piece of exciting news. I'm going back to work in Germany for 3 weeks in November. I got myself a part in a major feature film and as usual, my lips are sealed. I can't talk about it on social media - I didn't dare mention it until my agent got the contract this evening and she confirmed that it is a done deal. I told her that if she felt that the figure they have offered is reasonable then by all means sign on my behalf. Let's put it this way, I worked in Germany before when I did some German TV two years ago and I thought the amount I was going to get was similar - turns out that it was about 5.5 times more than what I was offered the last time because this is a feature film as opposed to TV. The script I have received is in English - I don't have any German lines even though I had made it very clear that I do speak German and have done German TV. On one hand I want to impress the German crew with my language skills so as to get more work there, on the other hand I can do that anyway just by chatting with them in German rather than English and it is less pressure to memorize lines in English without worrying about mispronouncing any words in German. I won't be going till around the 8th or 9th of November yet - but the final shoot schedule has yet to be confirmed but it will be around then. In the meantime, I had better brush up on my rusty German skills! So, it has been a surprisingly good year for me as an actor methinks. Thanks for reading, vielen dank!

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