It all started with a phone call from a director's assistant I'd done some work for on a parenting documentary a couple of years ago. A screenplay written some years ago had finally got funding and filming was going ahead the next month. Would I be interested in being a chaperone looking after two main child actors, and some schoolchildren between six and 11 years old, on location in Porlock Weir, Somerset? Oh yes! - although I didn't know what 'chaperoning' would actually involve. But it seemed like the perfect opportunity to be part of a film without being on screen.
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