Hollywood comes a Calling !!

When Hollywood wants you….they come and get you !

So, it shouldn’t be a surprise to everyone to learn that when Paramount Pictures were filming at Manchester Town Hall, and needed an elegant,suave,sophisticated, and modest man, to play the role of a Member of Parliament from the 1950’s and 1990’s…who better to recruit than…Jotown !

The film, about Margaret Thatcher ( Wally’s hero) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Lady_(film) and her introduction, and reminiscences of Parliament in Westminster would be a sight I’d no seen before, so when I was approached by a ‘talent scout’ (actually my daughter!) I agreed, and after costume fittings and haircuts in Manchester on 2nd February, I then turned up, bright and early at the films onsite location – Manchester Town Hall…where I had last appeared at a medal ceremony with Wally some years ago…

It was hard to get there for 7 a.m. on the Saturday morning, and immediately go into make up, another hair cut…and costume change….only to sit there all day, doing nothing !

Still, I was getting paid !and looking good !

..and prepared for the next day !