As I mentioned the premieres I should fill you in with some of the fun. As a lot of you might know the world premier was in London but for the week before that we all took part in a press junket in New York. Now I’m sure you have all read how surreal junkets can be but I don’t think this can be emphasised too strongly. To spend six days answering the same questions every ten minutes to different journalists could easily send a sane man mad. Luckily I spent most of the interviews with Sean, Dom and Elijah or some combination of the three so we always managed to have a good laugh. On top of this we had the evenings off so we could spend them catching up on what everyone had been doing for the past few months, I also caught up with a friend from Scotland who now stays in New York, and also managed to catch Ian McKellen’s show on Broadway, which was the first time I had saw him on stage and confirmed to me what an incredible actor he is.
Then we all headed over to London where I caught up with my sister and a few friends who would all accompany me to the premier. The junket in London didn’t seem quite as surreal, I think this was because I recognised the journalists and could associate them with their news papers or T.V programmes. I’m sure if you ask the American actors they would have had the complete opposite experience. As I am writing this I am thinking how much I look forward to the times when the L.O.T.R cast meet up and as I am leaving for L.A very soon I realise that one of these meetings is imminent.
The London premiere was an incredibly special night and I was so glad I could share it with my friends and family. A night that will stay with me forever. I’m sure there are some details about it in the interview section (including seeing it from Stewart, from Biscuit Media’s, point of view). A treat I’m sure you will agree. Then came a whirlwind tour of the globe, taking in as many premieres as possible. One of the best things about being an actor is being given the opportunity to travel, although given the choice I would rather spend more than three days when visiting a country! This tour of the globe included such highlights as partying at bungalow 8 in New York, visiting Strawberry fields in Central park, eating sushi on Sunset Blvd, surfing with the boys in N.Z, catching some sun on a beach in Sydney 2 days before Christmas. I’m sure these stories will be fleshed out and added to some time in the future, if not in a diary entry then certainly in an interview. But at the moment I’m off to bed. I’m meeting my sister Margaret and some friends for lunch tomorrow and I want to get up early to put in some hours on that blasted time machine. If I manage to work out the problems with it maybe I’ll meet them yesterday.
Have fun, take care,
love Billy.xxxx‘
AXN
