Well, just on my way back from doing press for Race to Witch Mountain in which a certain Mr Rock (Dwayne Johnson) gets the star-billing. And a nice guy he is too... he enjoys the promotional side and never seems to take himself too seriously and had some pretty good pragmatic insights into making the transition from arena to silver screen. He's a genuinely good actor and while Witch is strictly for the ankle-biter brigade and demographic, it'll do no harm to his résumé . And he's certainly a nicer guy than the security-guard who greeted me on arrival and quite literally strode up towards me saying "You'll have to..." and gave his wrists a literal 'shoo-ing' motion to indicate that he didn't want me sharing the same public corridor as the advancing Mr Johnson as they headed towards the lifts. Still, I guess the aloof, jobsworthy idiot bodyguard was just doing his job. Mr J himself probably wouldn't dream of it.
Spent the rest of the day in London. I passed the time by helping out friend and colleague Dina at the Daily Mail National Home Exhibition by taking some shots of her with interviewee, Rusty Lee (Rusty and the Rock... sounds like a 70s show, no?) . For non-UKers she's a celebrity cook of old, a big bouncy lady with an infectious laugh and seemed very pleasant. Grabbed some quick drinks and a chinese with Dina later and then headed for the station, the train and an hour or so of transcribing.
Tomorrow I have my non-obligatory but hopefully non-eventful check-up at the Neurology Department at the hospital and that should underline the fact I'm fit and fine to travel without being waylaid with any obscenely high and unnecessary insurance premiums. Two weeks today I'll hopefully be settling in at Yotel ready to fly off to LA. Betwixt now and then there's some Wolverineing and some Star Trekking to fit in. And packing.
Hopefully not in that order.
Cool runnings. I had to miss yesterday on account of family commitments. Sounds fun. Btw, is that a picture of Lance Henriksen bottom left, very cool.
All the best for today,
Johnny
Cheers, Johnny.
Check-up - as you read above - went well. And, yup, all pix to right were taken by moi and that is Lance H after our interview :) Will be doing a proper portfolio page soon.
Will see you (if they ever send details) for Wolverine on Thurs!