I was in 'Robin, Prince of Thieves'. Yeah, me and Kev.
I was living in Alnwick, and the castle was being used for the bit just after Morgan Freeman jumps up on the wall and does the 'I am with Robin of Loxley, are you ready to rumble?', and the peasants and townspeople storm the keep.
The film company asked the local jobshop for bodies, and it was agreed that the local ub40ites could work for a couple of days each as extras, with no effect on their benefit.
At the time I was sleeping with one of the girls at the benefit office (or 'feeling the benefit' as one of my mates put it), so I managed to get roped in as well.
And so it came to pass that a few of my workshy hippy mates and I became extras. The pay was £30 a day plus as many salmonellaburgers as you could eat.
We were costumed up, made up, given these shitty costume boots with paper thin soles, and made to charge across the cobbles of Alnwick castle courtyard about a dozen times.
This got dull rather quickly, until 'The Sausage Man' suggested a smoke. We might have overdone it a bit, cos the whole episode became very surreal indeed, and I lost track of the proceedings at about 3pm ish.
The shot I am in lasts for just less than 2 seconds. Look for the courtyard shot from above, with people charging across it. Find the guy with the long pikestaff, who jinks to his left just before the end of shot.

That's me that is.
( blyerkit e k trilby, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 11:35, Reply)