Rumors had been circulating for months. There was going to be a movie filmed in my neighborhood - Amberley - and it was going to be big. How big could it be, we wondered? What was it going to be about? When, and more important, who would be here?

The neighborhood grapevine kept leaking out bits of information. The movie was called "Body of Lies." It would star two-time Oscar winner Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio and be directed by Ridley Scott. Wow, we thought. That's big!

Well, movie buff that I am, I decided that clearly I had to be part of this … but how?

Work on the set? I had no talent in that area.

Act?...