{"id":4653,"date":"2020-10-10T12:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2020-10-10T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T12:00:52","slug":"character-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/10\/character-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous life I used to be a character actor<\/p>\n<p>Specialising in the broody artistic types<\/p>\n<p>But in 1994 I was cast as a clean cut Englishman<\/p>\n<p>In a European co-production set in Cornwall<\/p>\n<p>It was whilst filming I met a Swedish Actress<\/p>\n<p>Her name was Liv Rohm<\/p>\n<p>From the start I felt that the script was slightly exploitive<\/p>\n<p>And this had obviously worried my Swedish friend<\/p>\n<p>Who although not a prude thought that some of the scenes<\/p>\n<p>Had been added without reason to spruce up a tedious story<\/p>\n<p>It was then that we made our stand by refusing to do certain scenes<\/p>\n<p>Both Liv and I were subsequently sacked from the movie<\/p>\n<p>And I soon found work hard to get although I did act in three Jean Luc Godard movies<\/p>\n<p>Before retiring from the industry to becoming a writer<\/p>\n<p>Liv Rohm made a few more movies but faded from the scene<\/p>\n<p>As she had gained the reputation of being difficult to work with<\/p>\n<p>I was aware that she was working on Swedish television but lost all contact with her<\/p>\n<p>That was until the other day when I received a letter from her thanking me for being such a rock on the 1994 movie<\/p>\n<p>She further noted that she was now married (as I was) with two children (we have two children as well)<\/p>\n<p>I wrote back enclosing a newspaper cutting that noted that <em>The Italian Meeting<\/em> had bombed badly at the box office<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous life I used to be a character actor Specialising in the broody artistic types But in 1994 I was cast as a clean cut Englishman In a European co-production set in Cornwall It was whilst filming I met a Swedish Actress Her name was Liv Rohm From the start I felt that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}