By Dan Stevens
The year 2012 began with me getting back in the saddle, brushing up my famous horsemanship. Ho ho.
You see, the one place I know where it seems totally acceptable to lie is on an actor’s CV. The job of “pretending” just seems to leak on to the page. I know an actor with “badger taming” on his résumé.
Yes, I can ride a horse, play the violin and speak German. More or less. Looks good and probably won’t ever be called upon. Probably. Until it is. Giddy up.
Off the horse, the artistic year started well, as a judge on the panel of the new Corinthia Hotel’s first Artist in Residence programme. Located between Theatreland and royal and government palaces at a particularly panoramic bend in the Thames, the hotel has powerful visual and historical resonances; back when it was The Metropole, this was the meeting place of choice for the Mountaineers Club, where explorers might stay in splendour on their last night before attempting Everest.
When it became Ministry of Defence offices, there was a room devoted solely to filing sightings of UFOs. Each year a different discipline will be chosen to adorn the building and bring an injection of creativity into one of London’s more lavish lodgings. With photography up first, Noemie Goudal was selected to inaugurate with large-scale trompe l’oeil backdrops that eerily extend a plain space. Worth a visit before you hit the Alps.
Read the rest of Dan's wonderful column here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/9027410/My-Week-Dan-Stevens.html
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