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This has been quite a year. I worked on three different big films (fingers crossed for future Lego sets), and had the cast and crew screening of Jurassic World: Rebirth, my second credit in the Jurassic Universe. My son turned 1 and we had the coolest cake smash photo shoot you could ask for. Wildly, I became a God parent, not on my life's bingo card. I grew a mid life crisis moustache, and got rid of it. I think it looked good, but I can agree it didn't photograph well. That picture is from an audition to play a weatherman. I attended my friend's directorial debut on the red carpet at the opening Gala for Raindance, where he won Best Director! I worked out more than any other year since I left the army, but still somehow look like I love pizza and cookies a little too much. I hit two years without a drink in May, and am still going strong now, and to quote piano man, probably will be for life. Second best year for number of auditions, and best by far for number of call backs! But I didn't actually book anything. In December, I had the biggest audition I've ever had with one of my favourite directors. It was the best I've ever done in the room, and honestly even if nothing comes from it it is an audition that I'll cherish forever. I can't wait to eventually be able to tell people about it. My cat got his own director's chair, because he has serious opinions during my self tapes. I turned 40. My wife put together a wonderful video montage of friends wishing me happy birthday from around the globe. The most frequent messages were 1. Happy birthday. 2. I didn't think you'd live this long. Honestly, me too guys, me too. But I missed my shot at dying young a long time ago. I was able to see Much Ado About Nothing directed by Jamie Lloyd, with a stellar cast. By far and away the best Shakespeare I've ever seen. I only read 6 books, far far less than I wanted. Absolutely the most stressful year since I left the army, and that has really taken its toll. I had the pleasure of seeing A Life In Pictures for Bradley Cooper, thanks to my friend Chris. Here's hoping for a better year next year.

8 years ago I was in LA trying to get a job. I had one interview with a massive SFX supervisor who I would have killed to work for. I put the time in my calendar wrong, I missed it, and really pissed him off. That single event probably shaped this chapter of my life more than any other. I stayed in the UK, ended up buying a house. This side trip to the UK that was never meant to be permanent is now whatever the adult version of forever is. I still wonder what might have been. Life is funny that way.

I work in this industry because I truly believe that movies can change the world, and this gave me reassurance that I'm actually right and that I'm not wasting my time. Movies matter.

“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.” ~ Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way I read this today and it sent me. It's hard to believe that the places of my youth are so forever changed, but so am I. I mean I could go back, but no one would be there to recognise me. Both sets of grandparents have passed. Their houses sold. Which means that unforgettable smell, a concoction of stale Marlborough smoke, cat piss, and some of the best food and treats you've ever had is gone. That Christmas ornament that hung every year that had Papa's voice on it, that holds a special place in my heart, has been without a doubt carelessly discarded. That couch where we sat and watched their old 16mm movies on a projector, where I have my last picture with the two of them is gone as well. The piano where my sister played for Grandpa at Christmas has been gone for years. Where I can still see him with his glass of chardonnay sitting next to her on the bench wishing time could stop. The Winnie the Pooh balloon lamp that kept the darkness at bay when I would stay over at their house, hopefully made its way to someone who appreciated it. If I took my son to these places and pointed to them through the car window and said, “That's the house I grew up in.” He would no doubt find it interesting, but in a passing way. Those seven words somehow encapsulating 18 years of the complexities of life under that roof, but to him it would be just 10 seconds of staring at a house he has no connection with at all. I guess I'm just getting older, and these places, frozen in time, now just live within me, because there is no going back. “I wish there was a way to know you're" in the Good Old Days before you've actually left them.” Andy Bernard

How cool would it be to go back and tell my much younger self watching Jurassic Park in the theater as the credits roll, that one day you're going to work in movies and you'll work on two different Jurassic films, your name will be up there. I'm not ashamed to say that even just thinking about it made me smile and cry.  Thinking back to watching Band of Brothers with my Papa on Sunday nights as it came out in 2001 because he had HBO. As the credits rolled, sitting in silence at the powerful story we just watched, If I could tell myself that you're going to go to West Point, lead an Airborne Infantry platoon in combat, then one day you'll build B17s for a mini series called Master of the Air. Not everything I work on is going to be a cult classic or a genre defining film, but I can promise you that everything I've worked on is someone's absolute favourite film or episode of all time. Someone out there is like that little version of me watching it on repeat. Movies bring you joy, love, sadness, an escape …. employment. They give you permission to feel things you maybe don't want to feel, alone in the dark, but somehow in a crowd, as part of the collective that makes it ok. It's strange, maybe the ones I make are affecting people, and I just don't get to see it, I have to take it all on faith.  But I still believe that movies and TV can change the world, and at least for now, thats all I need to keep me going.

Last year I found out that Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser were signed up to do a movie about the weather prediction for the Normandy invasion based on a play by David Haig called Pressure (Due out in 2025). I bought and read the play and went about trying to figure out who the casting director was. The trail went cold. I then found that Pressure was being filmed right across from where I was working. I began to see Andrew Scott and Bredan Fraser along with the then unannounced Damien Lewis coming and going around the lot and seeing all the costumes and props around the studio. One day during afternoon break I was sitting on a bench outside of our workshop getting some sun and Brenden Fraser came and sat on the next bench over from me for about 5 minutes before his car pulled up. It was a surreal moment, an actor I'd kill to to work with, who's there for a project I'd love to be a part of, was just right there. With my acting I feel like I'm a ghost haunting a house I've never lived in. I'm so close, but I can never really touch it, never even get noticed, feeling mostly like I just don't exist. Like I'm in the right house, but in the wrong room…I can see where I want to be through a two way mirror, but there’s no way through. I used to think that working in the film industry would be a great way into acting, but I think director @cary_fukunaga said it best on why he quit being a PA, “you don't get to be the pilot just because you were the flight attendant for 10 years.”

I first read the script for Heavyweight in June 2021 when I met Chris working on The Marvels. Last week I was able to attend the premiere as his directorial debut opened the Raindance film festival. (You can catch me briefly as a paramedic!) I've sat next to him during quite a few BAFTA Q&As, this was the first time I've gotten to see him on stage answering questions about his own movie. It was a surreal moment. It's been a wild ride for him, he could not have sacrificed more to tell this story. I could not be more proud of or happier for my friend. To finish a script sets you apart from the crowd, to actually get a film made is nothing short of a miracle mixed with tireless effort. The cast and crew he put together worked together to breathe life into his spectacular story and made something that is beyond incredible.

I finished @therealjimoheir book #welcometopawnee on @audible last week on my way to the studio. To be a journeyman actor like Jim is the absolute dream, he currently has over 250 credits on IMDB. What struck me first and foremost is the vulnerability that Jim brings to storytelling. Sharing about Acting/auditions, wardrobe fittings, feeling left out, his uncertain future, but also his pinch me 'this can't be real' moments. The thoughts could have been pulled out of my own neurotic actor brain, but he lays them out in a way that's not only funny, but very relatable. Learning that everyone on #parksandrecreation was just as lovely as you'd hope they would be definitely made me happy. I believe that movies and TV can change the world, that's why I work behind the scenes and as an actor. And I think Parks and Rec is a prime example of that. Its relationship driven plots always left me with a warm and fuzzy feeling, and this book is no different. I am a little ashamed to admit that I put off watching the final episode of Parks and Rec for two years when the show ended. Because for me in some weird way, it meant the show, the characters I loved, were still there, still alive, having crazy adventures. I was even a little apprehensive about finishing this book for the same reason. But Jim's writing and narration style made it feel like I was a wide eyed kid listening to a bedtime story, one that would be continued tomorrow, one that I didn't need to worry about it ending. One where I knew, no matter what the ending was going to be one of happily ever after. Three cheers for the Mayor of Pawnee.

The other day a creative friend needed some reassurance, that extra push to keep going, to keep creating. This was my answer. Maybe even more aimed at myself on most days. Know that what you're doing matters. "A bit of madness is key To give us new colors to see Who knows where it will lead us? And that's why they need us" #creative #inspiration #purpose #actor

A few weeks ago I visited the Bovington Tank Museum and took my son around the exhibits telling him that daddy was a soldier. There was a new one on the war in Afghanistan. (I served in Iraq, and not Afghanistan, though not for lack of trying.) There were the vehicles and equipment of the era, and the subtle absurdities of soldiers on full display in the form of the music of the time, or an adult in a spongebob sleeping bag. (Though let it be known, I still think of Ripits, specially atomic pom, and wild tiger very affectionately) It was inevitable, the great conflict which I had been a part of is now only a small corner at a museum. It's humbling to see such a formative time in my life behind glass and velvet ropes, looked at in awe by children not yet born when hostilities started, yet alone ceased. It frightens me to think that now the memories, deeds, and actions of my fellow officers, friends, and soldiers belong here now, and slowly, eventually I'll belong here too. We're not condemned to the annals of history, but rather slowly trodding there of our own volition as I feel my knees ache and my back split painfully down my side, though mercifully not having to use my cane today. I make no qualms that I did not enjoy my time in the army (I suffered quietly, and sometimes not so quietly with wildly untreated anxiety and depression), but I am proud of it. Serving with men and women from all walks of life just wanting to make the world a better place by eradicating evil. I can't help but feel tears well up behind my eyes, not for past pride, or knowing that these times are well and truly gone, but because some of my friends are, and will forever remain only behind the glass. Young men and women in their prime, that had profound impacts on others, so much so that on more than one occasion I quietly wished I had been taken instead so they could have lived their lives and made so much more of an impact than I ever could hope to. Continued in the comments.....

I still can't believe I am in an episode of @fbicbs FBI: International season 3 episode 9: Rules of Blackjack  Thank you to the entire cast and crew who were nothing short of amazing! Casting: Vicki Thomson Casting The amazingly patient and kind Director: @yangzombrauen DOP: Gábor Maros @marosigab AD: @roxysarris Written by: Hussain Pirani @Courierbynight My stunt double: Andras Locke Performances are made in the editing room so a special thanks to our editor: Stephanie Willis My scene partner, the focused, kind, and professional:  @carterredwood Thank you also to: @xtinawolfe and @alex__morf Finally, Thank you to my agent @PlatinumManagement ! Now Streaming on @paramountplus !

TAKE ONE SUCCESS! 🎥🎬🤩 SWIPE FOR TESTIMONIAL . HUGE congratulations to Kyle Jerichow who following a recent 1-1 audition prep session has booked a TV role for a confidential TV series 🎥 . Kyle has regularly attended many of our classes and workshops over the past few years. . #actingclasses #acting #actingcoach #actingclass #actingschool #actingtips #actor #actorslife #actingworkshop #actingtraining #actors #actingteacher #actinglife #actingaudition #actingskills #theatre #actingstudio #actinglessons #actingislife #actress #actingworkshops #actingcareer #auditions #actinginstitute #drama #actingcourse #actorsofinstagram #takeone #actingsuccess