MEETING RICHARD!
First of all, I must thank Fabo for hosting
me on her blog.
Where do I start??????? I imagined this moment
so many times..when I first saw him in person in December at the Waterstones
Piccadilly Q&A, I was so so excited that I couldn't say a word when I was
standing in front of him waiting for my autograph! I wanted my second chance,
although there's never time to actually “talk”... unless you are so lucky to
bump into him in the street. When I heard about The Crucible I was thrilled! How
lucky I am to be here in London !! I soon bought my ticket, I'm attending the
show next Friday...I can't wait ! I have always dreamt of seeing him on stage
since I started following him...I always thought he would be amazing!
When did I start following him? In January
2013...
I didn't want to watch The Hobbit because I
was scared it wouldn't be good, being a huge fan of the LOTR trilogy. In
January 2013 I found news about the movie everywhere, and at last I decided I
wanted to know more about it.. so I watched the trailers and I decided to watch
it (all the movies in Italy are dubbed in Italian...). I loved the movie since
the first scenes...then Thorin knocked
at the door...and my life was ruined! :) and I didn't even hear his original
voice!
After watching the movie I wanted to know
everything about the actor who played Thorin Oakenshield...I was shocked when I
googled his name ! So I started following him and I soon “fell in love” with
him as probably all of you!
I was bit disappointed after The Hobbit
Q&A in Waterstones because I couldn't talk to him. Furthermore, I missed
him at the Empire Awards as I didn't know he would attend the show...I wish I would
have seen him with that ponytail..he looked gorgeous!
I was
determined to meet him again and shake his hand or take a picture with him. So
yesterday I had my chance: I wanted to go to the theatre and see if I could see
him at the famous “stage door”, but being very shy and not used to doing this
kind of things, I didn't want to go on my own.
I asked on Twitter and Facebook if anyone was
going to the Old Vic but nobody answered me, which was a bit surprising to be
honest. I thought many fans would go there hoping to meet Richard.
I was going to give up, I wouldn't stand there
on my own like an idiot...but eventually an RA fan answered me on Facebook and we
decided to meet up!
I wanted to go at 4:00pm, as my lovely friend
Marie suggested, and she was right. I'm sure Richard arrived around that time.
My friend and I met at Waterloo Station at 4:30pm, we had a cold drink as it
was really hot..I wonder why????!!! ;) then we went to the stage door and found
only some photo sellers and two girls, who were waiting for Richard. So we started
chatting and waiting..it was 5:00pm.
Some actors in the cast went outside several
times to smoke or have a coffee, but Richard never showed up. But we knew they
were doing rehearsals in a big room on the third floor (if I am not mistaken).
Through the windows I could see the stairs and the rehearsal room (or changing
room) door, we saw some of the actors going up and down with their costumes..
no sign of Richard.
There was a lovely girl,who has met Richard a
couple of times already (he even recognised her!!), that got some cupcakes for
Richard, so he probably knew some fans were waiting for him outside,and the
other actors were looking at us and smiling through the windows.
The time flew by and it was 7:30pm. The show started and the doorman told us that
nobody would come out of the stage door until 23.15(11:15pm) !!!!!!! I didn't
really believe him, I thought he wanted to get rid of us.. afterwords I realised he was right!
Continued on Part 2
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