If you get a chance to star in a music video – do it!
In 2008 I was cast as ‘one of the lads’ in Amy MacDonald‘s This Is The Life video. It was only a half day shoot and most of that was either in make-up or sitting around waiting to perform. Luckily drinks and snacks were available and the crew were a great laugh. The whole cast bonded really well and although we were only together a few hours, it was difficult to say goodbye.
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The main part of the video is set in a London flat with Amy and her (real life) friends. She looks back at pictures from past night’s out and reminisces about the good life. I was in one of those ‘photographs’.
Our bits were shot at night on the streets of Hoxton in East London. Huge lights on poles were erected besides us and the photographer used a special camera to take high speed photos. The result looks like a stop go animation of us moving with the effect being of Amy flicking through the images.
There was a second scene that we filmed where the guy with me threw up in the gutter and I was rubbing his back. It was actually cold, chicken soup they used and I was glad at the time I didn’t have to do it. I haven’t spoken to the guy since, but I’m sure he was peeved that he had to endure cold soup from the can and the scene was cut. To be honest, I think not using it was the right call.
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Looking back at the video I noted that my whole starring moment is just seven seconds long – but hey, that’s seven seconds in a popular music video. And a music video that over twenty three million people have seen!
Here’s the video. My part starts at one minute in and I’m the one with the shaved head wearing a denim jacket.
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