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Sherlocked report #1. Because my morphine has kicked in at 2am and I can’t sleep here’s a report from the Sherlocked friday drinks party. It was in quite a large room and there were deffo more platinum tickets sold than last year. There was free booze and soft drinks and we were encouraged to drink as much as we could. I found a table of fellow group G people and chatted whilst we waited for the guests to arrive. First we got Gordon Kennedy and he was an utter delight he said hello to everyone at our table in person and admitted that this was his second ever convention! The other one being a red dwarf con which was a signing cattle market (his words). I asked him about filming Sherlock and he said he had great fun as he knew Clive Mantle from years back and that they had both played Little John in Robin Hoods! He said that he wasn’t a very tall John and that Richard Armitage had to film some stuff standing on a box or crouching or with his legs wide open so that Gordon looked taller! Oh the joys of filming! Then we had Lisa Mcallister who plays Anthea. She said that she’d recently taken a bit of time off acting to have kids and S4 was the only thing she’s done recently and has no other jobs in line. She said she had no idea that she’d ever get asked back for S4 but was so glad that she was because it really made the character of Anthea much more fleshed out. That she was much more than just a secretary to Mycroft and that the character was really utterly his ‘Right hand man’. She said we need to start a campaign for a season 5 because she thinks the show is so marvelous and needs more stories done yet! Sadly we couldn’t take pic’s but she is gorgeous in person and has a short bobbed hairdo atm and her perfume was lovely! Then we got Sian Brooke and she was an utter delight. She said that her audition was initially just for the bus stop lady and then got a call back for the therapist and she thought they were just undecided as to what role to give her. It wasn’t until she’d actually signed the contract that she was told she’d be playing Sherlock sister and even up until filming the Lying Detective she still hadn’t read the ladst episode and had no idea how nuts Eurus would be and how it would all play out! She said she actually liked it that way because she could play the 3 other characters without any of Eurus showing through and thinks that if she had read all 3 episodes before filming that she’d’ve played it differently and not so well. She hugely enjoyed working with Benediction as shed done Hamlet with him. She’s not been to see Hamlet at the cinema yet because she thinks it would alter her memories of the experience but when she’s old she’ll drag her kids to see it to show them what thier mum looked like years ago!!! Then we got Una Stubbs who said she adores playing Hudders and loves being with Benedict and Martin and Andrew the most and was sad when told that none of them would be here this weekend. She said she had a grand time on S4 with the car but sadly she wasn’t allowed to drive it at all because of insurance and mostly it was a stunt bloke in her wig!! She says that Hudders always has rock music on to do the hoovering! She was utterly lovely and so smiley and laughed when someone said they loved watching her in Worzel Gummidge as a kid! Though she couldn’t belive I was old enough to have watched it (sadly I am!). I’m afraid I was too pooped from travelling to go to the disco afterwards so went to bed after that. The hotel is lovely though a very confusing layout and all the crew have been gorgeously helpful so far. I’ll try to post more stuff tomorrow, sadly I didn’t get a chance to look at the museum or photos yet, but I did see that they have the portrait of mycrofts ancestors and costumes I’ve not seen before so will try to get lots of pics of those for you to see. If you’re at sherlocked and you see a lady in a tardis wheelchair with purple hair – that’s me, come up and say hello!

Thank you for the report! Hope you are having a great time!