How Example walked into an acting role with his two million Twitter followers
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You may know Example the rapper and singer. Well, now prepare to meet Elliot Gleave, the actor.
Example's reverted to his real name for his acting debut in the low budget British film Between Two Worlds.
He says the pressure was on though, especially facing up to his acting colleagues.
"They're going to be thinking, 'This idiot's come along with his two million Twitter followers and just walked into the role,'" Elliot says.
"Acting wise I did loads when I was a kid, from probably the age of 10 until 18, all sorts like Joseph and Oliver.
"I got the role of Joseph and it was a local theatre production but then my voice broke during the rehearsals so we had to give it to a girl."
Elliot Gleave studied film directing at university and says directing remains an ambition for the future.
It was just that "music seemed to take off first".
He plays the "money man" who loves clubbing and women.
"I think the main thing I liked about this role was because there wasn't so many lines in it that I thought, 'Wow I'm going to struggle with this,' but I could hear myself reading these lines when I read the script."
Example with his wife Erin McNaught at the premiere of Between Two Worlds
Music remains his "main income" but Elliot says he's already got a "few films lined up potentially, one in January, one in March in America".
He's also auditioning for new acting roles, which he finds "quite scary" but thinks "it's important for me to learn to take the rejection".
He says: "It's quite daunting going into a room with a camera pointed at you and eight people who are going to judge you on everything that you do.
"And I'm used to just walking on stage to thousands of people."
With a budget of roughly half a million pounds, Elliot says Between Two Worlds "is not the sort of film that's going to be well known and blow up all over the world" but that has its benefits.
"So if I'm bad in it not everyone is going to see it, but at the same time it's a good enough script and good enough cast that hopefully I'll have my little moment to shine."
Between Two Worlds, external is a romantic comedy set in London and Liverpool that also stars Lucien Laviscount, Chris Mason and Hannah Britland and is released on 23 October.
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