new episodes 29 October 2009
Today is one of the more exciting ones on set as we have a readthrough of 2 new episodes after filming is complete. These are always VEH VEH interesting as none of us actors really knows in advance what’s going to happen in them. Exciting and nail-biting all at once.
I should point out to those across the various ponds of the world that AA Gill, who I wrote about yesterday, is a British journalist and restaurant critic. The lovely Joyce in Embra, who is as disgusted as me at his needless killing of a baboon, has suggested that every waiter who serves him from now on or anyone who cooks him a meal should spit in it as retribution for his gross act. It would be a small act but potent.
As a coda to the animal behaviour thing, I read some interesting stuff about bears yesterday. They are a helluva lot less aggressive than they are taken for and would always prefer to run from trouble rather than confront it. Also they’re not that keen on honey. Humans are far more dangerous animals. According to statistics one black bear out of a million kills somebody, with grizzlies it’s one in 50,000, whereas among humans it’s one person out of 18,000 that kills someone. ‘nuff said.
