lucky 29 May 2008
Got to talking about luck today. I really think it’s an element in every life, whether we like it or not (and I, for one, wish that it wasn’t, but there you go). There is no controlling it, you see. I do believe that work is rewarded some of the time but if it’s allied with luck it’s going to be all the more so. In my end of the acting business I believe it’s better to walk around the wrong corner at the right time than the right corner at the wrong time.
One of the producers on the film used to work as a headhunter and did a gig with a major bank once. After a post was advertised, and the mail in, he sat down with one of the executives and, without opening any of the reply envelopes full of CVs, she put every second one in the bin. When he asked if she was afraid of eliminating a good candidate she said ‘this bank doesn’t employ unlucky people’.
Good day’s filming today, I think. I got decent enough sleep last night, ate and drank sensibly throughout the day, grabbed a TINY shut-eye after lunch (I must have continental or cat blood in me as I do love an afternoon snooze) and I am now going to attempt to get, wait for it, 8 hours sleep (!) before the morning’s early pick-up….OOOOH, I am ACTUALLY scarily excited by how early I am going to bed (I feel lucky to be doing so). If this makes me a saddo, so be it…night night x
