I have decided to put a diary on here of premiers and conventions like Collectormania so that If u want to read it then u don't have to trek over to my Live Journal and read it there so here is my first entry..Enjoy :)
London Premier of Pirates of the Caribbean
July 14th 2003, Leicester Square (pictures are on the images page)
I checked that my neighbour couldn’t get me a ticket and left my house at about 10am for the train station. It was about an hour journey and my first time on my own on the train (didn’t get lost YAY). When I got to Leicester Square I couldn’t see anyone outside the Odeon so I walked about for a while (got The Face and Another Total Film). When I came back from wandering the shops I walked past a small group of people, one of them, I noticed had a ‘Wee Scarvie’ pinned to her top. I stopped, pulled out my wallet and showed her my wee scarvie and she screamed gave me a hug and started laughing. These were the people I stayed with the whole day, more members of the group came including Smaug who I had planned to meet there from F4F. It was a very hot day and we waited around for a long time in the sun. Two of the women(one of them with a wee scarvie) had had an artist commissioned to do 2 paintings for them(one of Legolas and one of Will Turner) and they had brought the only copies with to give to Orli as a gift (the drawings were sooo gorgeous and pretty expensive too) so that was one mission to get these to Orli.
Later on in the day after A LOT of pushing, shoving and shouting We were finally let behind the barriers which had just been set up (and very unfairly too, it didn’t matter how long you had been there it was just a race to get to the front and im surprised that nobody got hurt!). I didn’t get to the front and I had lost most of the group but Smaug came over and said she was at the front so I went over with her and somehow managed to squeeze my way into the front. I was next to the ‘Orli, you float my boat’ banner which you can see in some pictures(I was just to the left of it). After a bit of waiting, Screaming for the man in the hotdog suit (the jolly hotdog, dressed in pirates gear aswel as being in a hotdog suit), screaming for the numerous camera crews the people started arriving. T4 (a show on channel 4) was doing all interviews with every celeb and we were right near there(infront of the Odeon entrance) so all of them had to walk past us. We were getting (well I was anyway) a bit worried that Orli wouldn’t come over to any of us cos we were near the end and none of the celebs were really paying much notice of us. Then we heard that Gore and Jerry had arrived but they would all be a long way away from us for a while. It was then announced that Kiera had arrived and that we ‘might not recognize her because she has such dark hair’ (yea right, we are Uber fans, course we’ll recognize her!). well anyway, there were so many people going into the cinema that it was hard to look out for the stars. Oh I forgot to mention Mckenzie Crook turned up before them (wearing a pirate bandana but not really signing autographs). I was looking around and then noticed that the T4 crew were interviewing Gore, then I looked some more and noticed the Jerry was standing right infront of us! So I called him over and quite a few people where I was got autographs (im not sure if I was the only one that knew what Gore and Jerry looked like or it was just nobody else, and that was quite a lot of people noticed them). Kiera came past us and was interviewed by T4, we called her and called her but she seemed a bit more interested in the press people than us and didn’t come over or sign anything for anyone (well, near my area at least). When she was finishing with the press the whole place suddenly erupted with screaming down the other end of the street and then the woman announcing the arrivals on the balcony said that Orli must be here (after constantly teasing us about him)(Lauren just told me that his mum and grandma were there, she went into the premier and saw them but I didn’t) It took a long time for Orli to get closer to us as he was signing autographs as quick as he could for as many people as he didn’t want people to go without. Then we see him walking near us (constant OMGs from me)He was wearing a blackish coat done up which I thought was gorgeous, the trousers with the white stripe down the side and nike trainers (with no socks we noticed) he stopped signing autographs and quickly walked past lots of people to get to the T4 team which he had been told to do and did a really really quick interview with them, we thought he was gona go in to the cinema after this like the others but to our surprise (and a very good one at that) he started signing autographs from the bottom of the line with lightening speed but still looking up and greeting people asking how they were. Then he got to the person next to me (a member of our little group) and it just popped out my mouth ‘Orli, can I have a Hug?’, he looked up at me smiled then gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek (when he did this all the previous girls screamed HE Heeee, sorry, evil lol) and signed my poster. We then had to make sure the two women gave him the drawings. They passed them over to him and he was going to sign them but we were all shouting to him, ‘They are for you!’ He was saying to the woman, ‘No, I can’t take this, I cant accept it, it’s so good, I’ll sign them and give them back.’ After a while he was finally convinced to accept them and leaned over the barrier to talk to the woman and kiss her on the cheek. I was screaming and laughing that ‘Orli Just kissed me on the cheek and hugged me’ and shouting it to Jock (or Pippin as we nicknamed him, He was the security guard that we had been havin a joke with for a few hours). Orli went over to do some photos (after signing quite a few more autographs) for the press with Kiera and then gave her a kiss and they hugged and went inside where we could see them doing more photos. Loads of people were still screaming for him that hadn’t seen him yet so again to my surprise he ran back out to them and started signing more stuff! He was running from one side to another in order to get as many done as possible (it was sooo sweet of him as the others didn’t and he didn’t have to) but the woman that was on the balcony(sorry I cant remember her name, It might have been Jenny Bond but I know her face, shes a presenter) but she was saying that she hadn’t seen this much demand for someone in a very long time and that this was the longest she thought anyone had ever stayed out signing thing for. She also said that Orli and Kiera are meant to be one of the hottest onscreen couples ever. So after a while of signing things (Kiera still didn’t) he went in and the whole cast and crew that were there went up to the balcony and everyone was screaming and he was smiling and waving and winking, laughing and pointing. He then did a thumbs up to all the people behind the press that couldn’t get anywhere near the carpet or the stars and blew them a kiss and with that, they all went inside and everyone took the big cardboard posters from the barriers (with the help of the police lol) I didn’t get one. I was perfectly content with what I had(Hug, kiss and autograph). I said goodbye to Smaug and went home with only one regret, that I didn’t manage to get a pic of me and orli. I got home at about 9 – 9:30pm tired, hungry, dehydrated and aching but it was definitely worth it. I even got my neighbors booklet which was given out to the guests this morning. I have now even more respect to Orli than before, he looks even better in person than I could of ever imagined. I hope he never changes in his attitude towards anything, he was basically a perfect gentleman and a perfect guy and I am so impressed with the way he treats his fans. |
