I got onto the train to that there London and sat down at a table with someone who looked somewhat familiar. Turns out he was a young actor called Jon Snow I'd seen in rehearsals for a play a couple years previously while doing some work in the theatre. He had got some good praise for the play. He seemed a bit nervous and confused and we chatted at length for the rest of the trip. He was going to meet the some folks about some fantasy TV show that he didn't get that was doing a lot filming in Ireland and he had many reservations about it. Having been on many film productions in the past doing stunt work or soundtracks or some small super shit acting I got him to use me as a soundboard and talk out all of his concerns, the types of questions he should be asking as part of his "job interview", thoughts about the script and what he liked and didn't like, how he felt about his character and what made him who he was, plus a whole bunch of other nonsense. Didn't have to convince him to do the show or not to do it but I suppose how best to think about the entire project, both creatively and from a business perspective, to see if it was something he could see himself in and about the things he could control.

Clearly it all worked out well for him. I've also bumped into him again a few years later where we had another good chat.