When I tell people that I'm a film actor, they usually say 'That's so exciting!' It sounds really glamorous, doesn't it? You wear nice clothes, you meet famous actors. It all sounds wonderful. Most of the time it's fun, but it's also quite hard work. This is a typical day for me.
I get up at 8 a.m. and have a shower. Then I have breakfast. I usually have a script for the day and I practise my lines. From 8.30 to 10 a.m. we rehearse scenes for the next day on the film set. We don't wear special clothes or make-up. We practise our lines and the director tells us what to do.
I don't go to school when I work on a film, but I have a personal tutor. She teaches me from 10 to 11 a.m. I study a different subject every day, but it's quite slow because I haven't got much time for homework. After lunch, I go to try on clothes and get my hair and make-up ready for filming. It takes an hour or more and it's really boring. We start filming at around 1 p.m. and finish at 6 p.m. I enjoy the filming, but we often repeat the same things over and over again.
After filming, I study with my tutor again for two hours and then it's time to memorize my lines for the next day. By 9 p.m, I'm completely exhausted and ready to go to sleep. And we don't get weekends off! We work every day until the film is finished.
I'm so busy that there's no time to meet friends. In fact, I don't have many friends, so it's a little lonely. Also, I've got very little free time to read or study, so I really miss out on my schoolwork. But there are good things about it too. I'm learning how to act and I'm learning a lot about how to make films. The other actors and the director are friendly and help me a lot. I feel very lucky to have this job and I want to be a film director one day.