Getting a photo with a celebrity is the done thing these days, but a few scribbled words can also tell a tale
When it comes to providing proof that a celebrity has been encountered, selfies are the only show in town. They’re incontrovertible for a start. Hey, look that’s me with so-and-so! They bring the celebrity and non-celebrity together in a moment of equilibrium. Hey look, for one moment, we exist at the same time in the same universe! And they’re fun. For the non-celeb at any rate.
Once the play ended I rummaged around for my coat, only to look up and witness buddy number one announce that we were going backstage. DDL duly appeared and graciously stopped to sign our programmes. Recognising our accents he informed us that his father came from Laois. We were in no way prepared for this. We had only anticipated some perfunctory scribbles and a quick exit all round. But the man was making an effort at conversation.He stood there, open and friendly and entirely prepared to engage with us further but at that moment an American woman, around our age, arrived on the scene.
We didn’t have tickets but happened upon Michael Dwyer, the much-missed former film critic for this paper. We had never met him but my friend was bold enough to ask if there was a party afterwards. There was, he informed us, but it was invitation only. DDL wanted to thank me for getting in touch and said it was always good to meet people who ‘enjoyed the work’As it turned out, DDL wasn’t there. He was dating the French actor Isabelle Adjani at the time and had returned to France. We heard this because Michael Dwyer told us so. He spotted us perched on a sofa and approached, grinning and I like to think a little impressed.
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