Yes indeed. I think I misinterpreted Nick's words as suggesting that he had actually
seen ACF.
It's sort of creepy in a way, the idea that someone who is - in some circles - infamous has passed by your conscious without you knowing at the time.
A few years back, I had a client who books for those fan conventions where folks turn up and have stuff signed by the guy who played 'third droid on the left' in
Empire Strikes Back.
Anyway, one year my client lands a big fish along with his usual cast of has-beens and bit-part players. He snags Michael Madsen.
The deal is that Madsen appears for one hour to sign autographs one Saturday afternoon in sleepy suburban England. The deal includes his transport cost from London, where he's filming some sort of vanity piece.
So they sign up Madsen, imagine this, for a regular seat on the 12:36 from London to Birmingham and a cab ride to the venue. You could be shuffling all undignified out of the toilet cubicle and suddenly come face to face with the poster boy of 90's counter-culture film who just happens to be touching cloth.
The train carriage is full of fans going to this event to see Madsen who never figure that the man himself is sitting there among them. And that was their only chance because even though Madsen was on that train, he never took the taxi to the venue. No-one knows why. My client, who inhabits a world where "Such And Such Has Cancelled Sorry" is all you get, he knows the truth but he won't say.