Rufus to do a Christmas Reading - 15/12 London

[anniem]

Dec 14, 2010 11:37:42 GMT kygal said:

Have a great time! Hope you get to talk and take pics with him again...since you are friends now!

I hope we get an opportunity too. The ticket info. says no photos in the church, but hopefully we will see him outside when mince pies and mulled wine are being served and he will let us take lots of photos !!!! My camera can be a bit dodgy at times, so I'm relying on Nell, though I know that Mr Sewell is good at setting up a good photo. Did anyone mention at the Zen event that a couple of guys were having trouble with their camera and 'the expert' Roof sorted it out for them !

[cazbaz]

Have a wonderful time tomorrow ladies!

It seems he's doing a reading at the Great Ormond Street Hospital Christmas carol concert tonight as well - he's a busy man this week - let's hope we get to see some pics of him from this one too!

[dippyponge]

Have a lovely time ladies

[spice]

Lucky, Lucky Fan-Ladies,

I join with all of us here to wish you the BEST !!!

We will be with you in heart and spirit.

[wichiwoman]

Looking forward to hearing your stories and seeing your pics! Have a great time!

[nicole]

I wish you a lot of fun and make pictures!

Cazbaz: He's doing a reading today? Busy but warm hearted man.

[kissmekate]

Dec 14, 2010 20:21:30 GMT @anniem said:

Did anyone mention at the Zen event that a couple of guys were having trouble with their camera and 'the expert' Roof sorted it out for them !

Hehe, that's cool! ;D

I'm sure the girls attending will have a wonderful evening. Give Rufus a hug from me if you meet him

[GreenEyesToo]

Have a great time tonight, Nell and Annie - hope you get to talk to him afterwards!!

[anniem]

Thank you for all your messages .

I won't be able to do a report back till tomorrow night, but nell might be able to write earlier !

[nell]

Thanks for your good wishes ladies ! I'll report back as soon as I get a chance.

[rueful]

Have a great time, Nell and Annie. Don't do anything we wouldn't do! (That obviously gives you a lot of leeway.)

[dreamer]

I hope you really will be able to see him in London and take some pics.
Otherwise he could have been here today night, and I could have see him again, because right now on tv, Coming Soon Channel, I'm seeing the red carpet of the Rome premiere of The Tourist, with AJ, JD, the director, Alessio Bono and other italian actors.
Right now there is Johnny Depp interviewed.
That's incredible I knew the premiere in NY and not this one here in Rome.

But I have to say, fortunately Rufus there isn't because it's very cold and I don't know if I'd be gone out for standing and waiting for hours. ;D

[GreenEyesToo]

Oh, I bet you would if he was there, Dreamer!

[tipou]

SO? REPORTS?

[nell]

Hey Peeps ! - full report as promised.

We did it ! We didn't have the best seats in the house - too many pillars in churches I've decided. We ended up on the balcony so had a sort of Rooftop view. Rufus arrived pretty close to kick off and after greeting a few of the other stars was joined by his guest.

The press took some photo's so hopefully these will turn up somewhere. (Sadly we were not able to get photo's) He then took a pew which meant anniem and I would have to hang over the balcony to get a view, which of course we wouldn't do ;D

We were above the stage which was fine for the choir but we didn't have a decent view of the readers so we took off to find a better place to stand a couple of times and had it well sorted by the time Rufus did his reading. So we got a pretty good view of Rufus, sorry Roof's face (Rufus is far too formal - will explain all )

I heard some joker ask if we were the 3 wise Kings as we shuffled back to our seat. No we flamin weren't or we'd have got better seats !

Anyway at the end we were stuck on the balcony with a huge queue and a bit of a bottle neck trying to get out. After trying the emergency exit and failing we had to wait in line to get downstairs and then fight against the crowd getting out of the main church to get back in. To our relief we spotted our man and to our delight he recognised us and we had a bit of a chat.

We got our programmes signed on Roof's reading page. He signed mine Rufus Sewell and then said it was much too formal and so added Roof and an arrow. How sweet !

I did a bit better with my questions this time. I asked if he'd read all the Zen books and he said not all of them. He looked impressed when I said I had. When I said it was a shame we wouldn't be getting any more he said "No but we might do some more". So it sounds like the screen writers are considering adding to the Zen series with some stories of their own.

I also asked about the Sea and he said he liked the script and said yes to it but they were having problems pulling it together as people kept dropping out. He thought this was a shame because "the story/book was really good". (I'm definately going to have to read the book now). He went on to talk about the Ushers and it seems a similar case to the Sea. He didn't know it was going to be filmed in 3D when he read the script though.

And last but not least I asked if he was doing any theatre. He's not been offered anything yet but he still wants to do some when it's offered.

Then we both got a kiss and Rufus Roof left
We then went over to see Jack Whitehall and Bill Nighy and get their autograph's too.

Sorry no photo's as we were in the church and unlike last time we were surrounded by people. My phone really doesn't do great quality pictures either. Still I'll be on the lookout for the press photo's that were taken.