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MARCUS TESTORY
[I want to start right away by commending Marcus on his fluency in English. I wouldn't be able to talk that much in any foreign language; plus he was hearing British, American and some European accents on top!]
Marcus (or he answers to Max!) was wearing Doc Martens, black trousers, waistcoat (vest), black polo and a black tailored jacket. He had a small gold loop earring in each ear, a dark brown-to-black goatee, a shaved head (with his real trademark blue tattoo), plus several silver rings on his fingers. [To my partial surprise, *this* is when my hormones fluttered; not when I saw Adrian! As some of you are only too aware, I have developed a recent.....interest......in tall, dark men with goatees. I think Marcus just got added to that list.........]
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Just get out my macine-gun......oops!  |
Ahh, Guinness!  |
Marcus sang for us, accompanied by his guitar. A warm, rich bass/baritone. Wow. They were mostly all his own songs - you'd have to ask someone who knows them better which ones we had.
He has done some Kung Fu [I don't know what type]. He is producing a new CD
of chamber-type music soon, which he hopes will be out in Feb/March. He seems
to like Mozart, alongside a whole bevy of recent pop and grunge-type artists.
He laughingly added that he had training in drinking. [It was Guinness on
stage! Good man!] When asked about acting he said, "This business is
just a pile of tomato soup!" [Interesting mental image here!] Marcus also
sang 'The Roof is on fire' [I'm guessing at the title!] - we were invited to
join in the chorus which contains some profanity! His singing is a 'liberation
of soul and spirit......if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be totally nuts.'
[When I sing well, it's like I'm flying. I understand where he's coming from!].
He's doing some film work soon playing all 5 characters in a piece, including
Mephistopheles, the Devil [I thought they were kinda the same thing!] and
Wojeck. He'd like to set up his own theatre company, maybe in Frankfurt. Last
comment; "I need to sing to set myself free." [Yes. Couldn't have
put it better, but then he's a fellow Taurean, so we obviously feel the same way
about some things!]
ALEXANDRA VANDERNOOT
[Oh, my word......she's got short brown hair! Must be her natural
colour?] Wearing black jacket with various discreet zips, grey trousers,
tshirt?, gold stud earrrings, black shoes and socks, various thin necklaces, a
couple of rings, watch with brown leather strap, several very thin bracelets on
right arm. Tall, slenderer than I'd thought. Sparkling blue eyes.
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If you squint a little and imagine my blonde rinse.....  |
Happy to be here...  |
Alexandra thought it would be interesting if Tessa had become immortal.
When she got the part, she and [I think] the producer's wife went on a crazy
shopping spree in Paris for Tessa's wardrobe. She loves dressing up [Yes!] and
even puts on stuff for her son at Halloween [he's 4½ now!].
"How did Tessa influence you?"
She's had the good
fortune to play characters stronger/braver/more honest than herself. She
enjoyed that Duncan and Tessa had a grown-up relationship. Filming in and
around Paris was romantic but cold! She commented on how much fun Dennis Berry
was. The most challenging scenes were the simple, subtle ones; plus eating
and talking at the same time! Alexandra has just finished shooting 'Sabotage'
with David Suchet and Stephen Fry which is about Naploeon. She had done theatre
in Brussels before HL. Stan Kirsch knew very little - 'like a baby!' [kindly
humour!] He had to be told about finding his 'mark'. She likes the banks of
the Seine in Paris and Montmartre.
Alexandra told us about the off-screen moment when Christophe quietly handed his sword to Adrian which she thought was special. She also liked 'Dust in the Wind' before she saw The Darkness; it was very moving. She'd like to do horror, but France doesn't produce much. Of the new loves of Duncan - "Oh, it's that now!" [Big smile!]. She also told us how she'd described Adrian as 'average' toher husband so that he wouldn't worry! This word came back soon!
Suddenly a man's voice was heard talking in French off-stage. It was Adrian and he definitely expressed some surprise and something to do with not having seen her hair short and dark like that before. He came on with a lovely bunch of flowers for her.
I went down to get a couple of pictures and sat on the carpet. I looked up,
Adrian looked up and across and for one, maybe two seconds, our eyes met. No
emotion, just an acknowledgement. A 'Hello'. I went back to my camera when he
looked away, got my photos and that was that. I'd had my major Adrian Moment.
Yes, more so than getting his autograph later. Adrian joked about Elizabeth
Gracen being 'always by satellite!' He said something nice to Alexandra in
French, but I didn't catch what it was. He quipped "I only laughed at
you.....[beat] with you!" and caressed her neck in a brotherly way
to show he hadn't really meant it. There was some more fun about Dennis Berry,
with Adrian doing a characature of the man [at least I hope so!]. Alexandra
dropped the word 'average' in at least twice; Adrian knew something was going
on, but was un-enlightened!
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Actually, a Limoncello would be nice.....  |
Mischief! 
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Then came the auction:-
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