{"id":1265,"date":"2012-03-11T10:58:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T10:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2012-03-17T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:04:23","slug":"mr-beans-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Mr Bean\u2019s Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trudging through hoards of tourists along Piccadilly, laden with a studios worth of equipment I arrive at the Mayfair hotel to be greeted by reporter Genevieve Roberts<\/a> who was interviewing actor Sean Bean<\/a> for the Independent on Sunday<\/a>.
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\nWhilst we both eye up a collection of cakes Genevieve tells me her plan.
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\n\u201cYou might want to go first\u2026 They want me to ask about his wives\u2026 all 4 of them, I\u2019m going to slip it in at the end but I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll be happy\u201d she informs me.
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\nThat\u2019s a good heads-up. I head to Sean\u2019s people and see how long we\u2019ve got before it\u2019s our turn. We had five minutes, which once I\u2019d finished my cake wouldn\u2019t have given me enough time to set up. I would just have to rely on my charm and the likelihood that a man whose been married and divorced 4 times will have developed a thick skin.
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\nHalf an hour later, I\u2019m all set and have shot a few test frames of the overtly chatty make-up lady (They are all the same).
\nSean\u2019s PA enters the room: \u201cSean needs a belt, I\u2019ll go to the concierge\u201d she flaps
\nThinking that this might endear me to my charge I risk potential humiliation and offer my own. Sure enough Sean returns sporting the latest fashion, well, my cheap GAP belt!
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\nThe shoot sailed by as we chatted about Sheffield, where he grew up and how I used to run around the back garden pretending to be Sergeant Sharpe<\/a> (a character he played in my childhood)
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\nWhen my 15 minutes were up we shook hands and he headed for the door.
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\n\u201cOi Bean, belt!!\u201d
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\nHe gave it back; and now the article is in the paper; you can read the full story here<\/a>. Not sure if it\u2019ll be one for me but he\u2019s just released his new film Cleanskin<\/a>, which is in the cinemas now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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