A blessed girl in Los Angeles

I arrived in LA last Saturday and have been so blessed in this one week. I’ve been formally offered the job that I moved over for (I would have stayed in LA if I hadn’t, but life would have been much less stable had it not worked out), found a great apartment with a nice flatmate, and am making friends and settling in.

Though it is 110 degree weather in the Valley this week! I understand the logic of getting to work for 8am and finishing at 5pm – you’re in lovely air-conditioning during the hottest part of the day. My drive to work, through the Malibu Canyons, is exquisite and I cannot believe how blessed I am (why use the word ‘luck’?) to be in the circumstances that I am.

Living with my best friend, who is on her way to becoming a Hollywood writer and working her way up, I’ve made some fantastic connections, and last night, on just my 6th night in LA, one of those connections was kind enough to take me to the Wanted premiere at Mann Theatre, right by UCLA.

Now, I do not yet have a car. The friend I am living with had a high school graduation to attend (her brother was valedictorian), and the new friend I was attending the premiere with works near the premiere and had to stay at work until right before the event, not giving him any time to pick me up from the Valley, obviously. So I had to get a bus to UCLA. It turned out, in the end, that I had to get FOUR buses to UCLA. I made it there within 5 minutes of the cut-off point for picking up reserved tickets. How disappointing it would have been to arrive 5 minutes on the wrong side, after all of that travel.

Anyway, because my friend works in the industry, we attended the after-show party, and here are my celebrity pictures of the evening that I was forced to take! I normally don’t enjoy being the kind of person who asks for a picture, but someone else I was with convinced me to – to prove I was there!

After all, I’m not in the industry, and not looking to be either. So, here follows my pictures. I had a chance to talk to them all, and many other producers and writers too. It was a great night, and just amazing that it was in my first week in Los Angeles.

James McAvoy ‘Wanted’ (you see why, right?) – lovely guy, such a pro

Anne-Marie Duff: amazing British actress and wife to James McAvoy, and lovely to boot

Jesse Spencer: stars in House and for me, as a Brit(ican) it was especially fabulous to meet him as he was in the Australian show Neighbours for years, and as a teenager watching it every day I had a MAJOR crush on him. I’m really pleased he’s made it over in America now, and that he’s a nice bloke.

I also had the pleasure of meeting Terrance Stamp – what a legend!