Online thoughts of actor Dudley Rees. A place to explore the big questions of acting. Blogerty Blog Blog.

Great news everybody. After 4 weeks of labour, the Never Try This At Home ensemble has birthed a new play. Father Carl Grose and Paediatrician Paul Hunter have been beautifully supportive. What’s the gender? I don’t know, this analogy has gone too far already.

I had a few expectations of what it would be like being an actor but there are a couple of perks I didn’t know about until I was in the business for a while. The first is that you get to travel.

I went to the Cannes Film Festival one year, not to promote a film but to promote Heineken. The corporate mission didn’t matter though, I was on the Croisette, under the sun, at hotel balcony bars where full fat coke was not an option, it was strictly diet, window shopping for a sixty thousand euro diamond encrusted iPhone and in a toilet with Rob Lowe. I also got to fall in love with Helsinki in 2012. That was a less vacuous adventure and one that stays with me. New York, off Broadway is a location many of my stage actor friends have had the pleasure of being paid to go to. It’s a perk.