Vintage-boat owner and conveyancing solicitor Chris Malley (inset) emailed Obiter to tell of his acting part in film director Richard Curtis’s latest feature – yes, he of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill fame – apparently titled The Boat that Rocked. Malley, 61-year-old partner at Weymouth firm Simon Lacey Law Associates, was contacted by intermediaries working for the location shoot at Weymouth after they heard that he owns a classic 1960s twin screw diesel motor boat.
All the extras, including local youngsters, were required to dress up in 1960s clothing and Malley was driving in many of the scenes – which he hopes will make the final cut when the film is released around the end of this year. ‘The youngsters were impressed by the fact that I not only remember the 1960s… but that I had a selection of CDs on my boat of artists of the period such as Dusty Springfield, which I played while we awaited our call to action [on set],’ he says.
Malley, sadly, didn’t get to meet Curtis, who was ‘off somewhere in the distance deep in conversation with actors Bill Nighy and Rhys Ifans’. Despite ‘a considerable amount of hanging around waiting to do several scenes five times over’, he reports it was a fun day watching the special effects team create bubbles and waves and ‘made a change from sitting in the office all day’. Quite. Obiter looks forward to seeing Malley immortalised in celluloid. Any other lawyers with screen legend stories to tell?
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