This Friday 20th March Lydia Kay was invited on to the Friday Lunch with Victoria show on Liberty Radio to talk about ActingHour. You can now listen to the whole show on our Soundcloud profile here:

Lydia Kay / Victoria Edgecombe / Holly Hall

On Wednesday 18th March, SamSam Bubbleman succeeded in breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest free-floating bubble. The event was held to promote the new Dreamworks film 'Home' which is out in UK cinemas on the 20th March!

After the World Record attempt had finished Lydia Kay took part in an interview with SamSam:

Lydia
What got you into bubbles in the first place?

SamSam
You know I always why other people didn't really. I mean is there anything more magical than a bubble, really? You know I see people juggling and doing circus tricks and that's cool, but I see a bubble and it just takes me to another place completely. My mind, my heart, my soul. It fires my imagination like nothing else really. It all started back in 1989, I had, um, what I call my bubble epiphany. I was sat in a field watching a bubble, about a football sized bubble, just float across my field of vision; and it was a beautiful sunset, lovely calm winds, I just watched the bubble for what seemed like half an hour but was actually probably only a couple of minutes. And then suddenly it pops, and it completely disappeared. Was it ever even there in the first place? What could be more magical than a bubble really?

Lydia
When I was younger I used to catch bubbles on the stick and then try to stack them in like a Jenga tower, so would you ever do a record to see how high a bubble tower you could create?

SamSam
I do have that record actually as it happens.

Lydia
Do you! How high is it?

SamSam
It's not high because to keep it high you really need to fill it with a mixture of helium and air. So what you do is you drop it downwards, so you hold it from the top, and I made a bubble chain of 26 bubbles which almost stretched down to the ground from about a 5 foot height.

Lydia
Yep, miles ahead of me!
So some children, and adults, like to run around popping bubbles. What are your views on people popping bubbles and has anyone ever popped a bubble that they shouldn't have?

SamSam
Well, you know what, it's very hard to get kids to not pop bubbles. It seems to me kids and bubbles go together quite closely I tell you. And I have various things up my sleeve to try and get them to stop popping my bubbles if I don't want them, including a water pistol that I find works quite well. Sometimes we play dodge-bubble, and the kids have to make sure they don't pop the bubble that time. And then I have other equipment like the net, which, did you see the net that I use which make huge clouds of bubbles, so those are really for popping. It's the big ones which I try, I really want them to survive.

Lydia
Has anyone tried to pop a World Record attempt before?

SamSam
Um, yep, when I put the most kids inside a giant bubble we had one naughty little child who kept reaching over to pop the inside of the bubble.

Lydia
Do you also like bubble-wrap?

SamSam
Not as much as my kids.

Listen to the rest of the interview here:

You can read more about the day on our Past Events page here.

Interview in association with The Fan Carpet.

After watching 'X+Y' Lydia Kay sat down with actor Asa Butterfield (Nathan) and director Morgan Matthews to talk about the film:

The film is out in cinemas on the 13th March.
You can read our review here.

ActingHour took to the red carpet at Empire in Leicester Square, London for the World Premiere of 'House of Cards' Season 3 in aid of The Old Vic.

"U.S. Rep. Francis Underwood of South Carolina starts out as a ruthless politician seeking revenge in this Netflix original production. Promised the post of Secretary of State in exchange for his support, his efforts help to ensure the election of Garrett Walker to the presidency. But Walker changes his mind before the inauguration, telling Underwood he's too valuable in Congress. Outwardly, Underwood accepts his marching orders, but secretly he and his wife, an environmental activist, make a pact to destroy Walker and his allies. Based on the U.K. miniseries of the same name, the U.S. version offers a look behind the scenes at the greed and corruption in American politics. A number of real-life media figures make cameo appearances."
- IMDb


On the carpet Melanie Crossey spoke with Kevin Spacey.

The Emmy-winning original thriller series stars Golden Globe winner Kevin Spacey as ruthless, cunning Congressman Francis Underwood, who will stop at nothing to conquer the halls of power in Washington D.C.

His secret weapon: his gorgeous, ambitious, and equally conniving wife Claire (Golden Globe winner Robin Wright).

All 13 episodes are Avaliable NOW on Netflix!

Yesterday we attended the press conference in London for new feature film 'Focus' starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie. Both stars attended the conference which was hosted by Edith Bowman and featured Anhdao Ava and Apollo Robbins to talk about the art of pickpocketing.


"Will Smith stars as Nicky, a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess (Margot Robbie). As he's teaching her the tricks of the trade, she gets too close for comfort and he abruptly breaks it off. Three years later, the former flame - now an accomplished femme fatale - shows up in Buenos Aires in the middle of the high stakes racecar circuit. In the midst of Nicky's latest, very dangerous scheme, she throws his plans for a loop...and the consummate con man off his game.
'Focus' was written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa ('Crazy, Stupid, Love.'). Denise Di Novi ('Crazy, Stupid, Love.') is the producer, with Charlie Gogolak and Stan Wlodkowski serving as executive producers.
The cast is headed by Pcsar nominee Will Smith ('The Pursuit of Happiness', 'Ali'), Margot Robbie ('The Wolf of Wall Street'), Rodrigo Santoro (the '300' films) and Gerald McRaney (TV's 'House of Cards').
The behind the scenes team includes director of photography Xavier Grobet ('Enough Said'), production designer Elizabeth Mickle ('Drive), editor Jan Kovac (HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'), and from 'Crazy, Stupid, Love.' costume designer Dayna Pink and composer Nick Urata. Apollo Robbins, nicknamed The Gentleman Theif, served as a consultant, conceiving and choreographing original sleight-of-hand maneuvers.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents, a Di Novi Pictures Production, A Zaftig Films Production, 'Focus'. The film will be released Only In Cinemas and will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment company.
The film had been rated R by the MPAA for language, some sexual content and brief violence."


You can listen to the whole conference here:

You can also watch a few video clips from the event:

And here are some of our photos:

A biographical and inspirational film about the extraordinary life of Professor Stephen Hawking.

Our founder Lydia Kay, in association with The Fan Carpet, attended the UK Premiere of 'The Theory of Everything' at Odeon Cinema Leicester Square.

There she spoke with actress Felicity Jones (playing Jane Hawking) and producer Lisa Bruce on the blue carpet.