Chris Rogers - Professional Liar
This is the blog of Chris Rogers. My official webpage is http://www.c-rogers.com. Here you will find moments, thoughts and snapshots of an actors' daily battle to conquer the breadline and the acting industry. If you meet me, buy me coffee.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
I've updated my webpage! Uhm... again... finally?
Oh the bittersweet irony.
So I suppose I should become better at this 21st century "keeping-myself-updated" thing. Here goes nothing. A new site in swishy HTML5, a new showreel soon to come, new(-ish) headshots and this blog post which only took me... ahem... seven years.
I'm on FIRE.
I could have saved myself the embarrassment but I thought some might think it fun to rummage through ancient history. More soon. No, really. I mean it. Uhm... I think.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
I've updated my webpage!
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The junction point for the entire space-time continuum...
It seems tomorrow is going to get slightly busier than expected. Besides going to Sandi Thom's gig (as I mentioned below), I've been called in to do a voice over and found out that I've landed a part in a viral for Getty Images which is also shooting tomorrow. To crown things off, the same company is asking me to audition for another project (guess when... that's right, tomorrow) and Siri and I have made plans to meet up for a "Valentine? Bah Humbug" coffee. Awesome.
Might go and ask Doc if I can borrow the DeLorian...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Sandi Thom and the Magic 6-Ball...
Hey boys and girls.
Well, while the year is slowly kicking into gear, auditions are starting to come along and the first gigs are coming through, I want to tell you about a little success story of some friends of mine...
Anybody who has been following the charts recently will at some point have stumbled over Sandi Thom and her Janis Joplin-Like (almost-) A Capella single "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker".
The feisty wee Scottish lass with her beautiful voice (who was in my year at LIPA) really doesn't need any publicity from me. But the fact that she's invited me to come see her gig at Islington Academy on Thursday and that she practically nicked my band deserves a little attention.
Yes it's true, three quarters of "The Magic 8-Ball" are currently the line-up for Sandi Thom. Not that it would be anything unusual. Marcus, Craig and Scotty have always proven themselves musical whores and moreover, a lot of us used to hang out together. I can't wait to hear them again!
If you haven't heard the album yet go and check it out. I like it a lot, and even if you don't: Buy it anyway! It's keeping my boys off the street.
Thanks for the invite Sandi, I'll see you on Thursday...
Friday, January 19, 2007
Gone with the wind...
I always enjoy the irony of those warning signs...
Of course I arrived 10 minutes after my plane took off and therefore spent another 2 hours in turning around and getting back into London. I did however manage to stay dry. Wonder if this guy did:
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Happy New Year 2007
I hope all of you have as much fun as I will tonight, I'll see you next year.
Happy New Year.
Chris
Footsteps in mud, blood and rain...
No, we did not enlist into the American army and go to Irak. Instead we shot a WWII based shortfilm entitled "Footseps" (the plot of which I won't spoil and will rather direct you to the homepage: www.getmescene.com/footsteps ).
I don't want to jinx it, but if the production values are anything to go by I think this will be one hell of a piece of work. Everyone from the DOP to the make-up artists were astonishing in what I struggle to call a low budget production.
The culmination of the project for me was in the last night of shooting. The cast and crew stood side by side till 5 am after the heavens opened and we were up to out ankles in mood and artificial blood.
The carefully planned, perfectly equipped shooting schedule turned into guerrila warfare: Making sure the equipment stayed dry... Make-up artists straddling actors in vans to apply gunshot wounds... Friends of the crew sticking around to help wherever they could... Actors lying half-naked in the middle of a field shivering - no - convulsing with cold before having to play perfectly still corpses... it was great.
One of the corpses remarked jokingly he would kill the next person who said an actors life is glamorous... Well, maybe not glamorous, but a hell of a lotta fun.
Guys if you're reading this: Any time, any place.