Thoughts on acting, filmmaking, and the journey of starting over at 52.

Offshore
My agent told me there was a limit on how many auditions I could turn down. Three months later I've turned down four or five, done exactly one, and neither he nor my manager has dropped me. The auditions were never how I was getting work.

Projects
I am four weeks into a rotation offshore with no acting work until August, which has given me time to think about how I ended up with seven films booked through 2027. It all goes back to a bad shoot in a park in 2023 and a message from a DP.

Offshore
Four weeks on, two weeks off. I'm going back offshore as a client rep QA inspector on pipelay vessels. The rotation pays for the films. Here's what the work actually is and why I'm doing it again.