Ha! Some of the chaps in our reenactment group were on the set of First Night and they were all given a talking to about the hamster incident.
The first sacking came that evening when a squaddie ran across the set wearing nothing but a squirrel's tail, hanging out of his bottom, shouting 'I'M RICHARD GERE!'
The director went mental when some anonymous wag called from a massed rank of troops 'Why can't hamsters drive? Cos they can't get out of gear/gere!'
Sadly, it was years before I joined...
(The first sacking came that evening when a squaddie ran across the set wearing nothing but a squirrel's tail, hanging out of his bottom, shouting 'I'M RICHARD GERE!'
The director went mental when some anonymous wag called from a massed rank of troops 'Why can't hamsters drive? Cos they can't get out of gear/gere!'
Sadly, it was years before I joined...
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Thu 7 Oct 2010, 13:01,
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