An article in 'The Guardian' today was entitled :
Tom Conti: 'I knew nothing at all about street dance … '
The veteran Scottish actor has always been a smoothie, and now he's showing off his moves in Streetdance 2.
Tom, who is 71 years old, said of the film :
Things you might like to know about Tom, that he :
* doesn't like to dance, has trouble with the tango, spurns the quickstep, turned down place on tv in 'Strickly Come Dancing' saying "I'd make a total arse of myself".
* was classically trained as an actor and was irked by inexperienced cast who had a problem with mumbling their lines, saying : "Elocution! You feel such an old fool, but I'm afraid it's the first rule" and said that being the oldest person on set was sometimes "awful and weird".
* had George Sampson, on the left, who plays the crew manager, 'Eddie', say of him : "I hope when I'm his age I'm as smooth as Tom Conti. He's so graceful. And he was a soldier for trying that salsa."
The film trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBp1X5WYsJs
P.S. My posting on Tom's birthday last year :
http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/britain-says-happy-birthday-to-old.html
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