Pooper Trooper

Occasionally most aspiring actors have to resort to ‘extra’ work to make ends meet. Here’s a picture of me back in the 80s between scenes on Return of the Jedi. Unfortunately for me and 299 other storm troopers, it wasn’t just the Jedi that made an unwelcome return. The one woman catering van they had in, 'Beverley Grills', served up Chilli con Carne, though what the carne was it was con I’m yet to figure out. Anyway, suffice to say the bog in my hotel room found itself on the dark side for three days straight and I wasn’t able to get off it in time to deliver the one line I’d practically begged George for – “I’ve been watching Han Solo and Ewoks around the clock Lord Vader”. That could have made me that line. A line fit for a king, but I was stuck on the throne. Typical.