Flash Bang

A few years ago – about five or six – I was sitting at home taking a year off from studying. I had finished matric two years earlier and jumped straight into studying a degree I wasn’t sure about so of course, I ended up putting it on hold.
Then, I started thinking about my passions and what I would love to explore and well, film just happened to be one of these things.
Acting was out – to be fair, I do have talent but I don’t quite have the passion for it that would be required to succeed…or the self esteem. So I took the next best thing…doing something behind the camera.
At the time, I had a friend from school who was already studying film…and she had a friend who was working on a movie being shot in Cape Town at the time.
Through this, I got an invite to the set and since, at the time, I didn’t know how intensely boring a set could be, I was absolutely thrilled.
It was a fascinating thing at the time…really broke up my routine of doing nothing all day.
And I met some interesting people.
One in particular got me remembering this story.
During my time on the set, I spent some time with a young actor – far too pretty for his own good really but also a wonderfully nice person.
And now, a few years later, he’s gaining recognition and astounding amounts of popularity and is going to be a wonderful talent and I really really really hope that the industry doesn’t claim him as another casualty and he’ll remain that nice funny teenager that I remember.

Oh well. Time will tell.

In other news…it is our staff function today…that will be an interesting experience to be sure. There’s nothing better than drunk work colleagues.