In a new feature on TMINE, we’re going to be looking at what actors, actresses and other members of TV and movie production crews have been up to during the Covid-19 lockdown – as long as they’ve been making videos of it. Which is what most of them seem to be doing these days.
Over the weekend, a whole bunch of actresses and their stunt doubles were so bored, they decided to make their own video in which they seem to beat each other up. Among the assailants: Lucy Lawless, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Rosario Dawson, Cameron Diaz, Florence Pugh, Daryl Hannah, Zoe Saldana, Thandie Newton, Halle Berry, Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
