Aileen.Marron

Well it really was like Deja Vu! Only this time we had the long journey on the way down, tonnes of traffic meant a 7 hour car journey (hire car btw, Si’s car’s in the garage and my car might not make it there and back - its an old FIAT punto… (FIAT =Fix It AgainTomorrow LOL) Anyway, because of the nature of Jagua it was really great to see Andy again a few days after we did the tattoos - we left him with pale greyish artwork early hours of Tuesday morning, and seeing him on set in character with some of the tattoos on display was great, it made it all worthwhile! There was a great buz on the set, lots of passion and energy, although we didn’t see a lot, it looks like its going to be a really good film. Can’t say anymore on that one lips are sealed.

Finally we were ready to start work on Andy at around 8.30pm, the 10-15 mins it took us to set up was all he got for some dinner. Must stress that if you’re in the film industry and you’re looking for an extremely talented and passionate actor with the patience of a saint… then Andy’s your man, What a guy! He did mention 19hour make-up sessions (I’m thinking King Kong and LOTR) and he managed yet again to balance in some realy precarious positions, without smudging any artwork, whilst still working on his script for the next day. Simon & I had a great night, we brought loads more tattoo flash with us this time, as we knew more about the character, so Andy was able to choose all sorts of amazing tattoos for his character.

We went at it flat out until around midnight where we moved on to the fineline tattoos, and Simon managed to persuade us to stop at around 12.30 So that we could get most of the dried up Jagua Gel off before 2.30am… We managed to pack down, clean up and peel most of Andy’s tattoos off by around 1.30. And we left him once again, cold and tired in the early hours, this time he still had to peel off a few tattoos himself just before collapsing into bed for a few hours (by now he’s quite adept at the art of Peeling Jagua.) All in all it has been a great film to work on with Jagua, lots and lots of tattoos! Most of the tattoos will be seen in the openning sequence of the film (being shot somewhere in London today) and some of the tattoos will be visible throughout the film. But given the lack of sleep and the travelling I have to say that this was the best film that I’ve worked on. Its been great fun and really inspiring to work with someone who is commited to the point of delirious sleep deprivation and prepared to really suffer for his character (to say peeling jagua off hairy areas hurts is an understatement!).

And also, needless to say, as an avid Tolkein fan, and a huge fan of Peter Jackson’s films it was also really cool to meet Andy (Gollum/Smeagol in LOTR films) I managed to resist the urge to ask him to say “My Precious” (If you’re reading this Andy… sorry, I had to get it out of my system somewhere! LOL ;-) )

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