PLUCKED FROM OBSCURITY FULL

As an actor, I’m not in the position to refuse work like that – especially as River City is where I cut my teeth.

“I went back for a couple of weeks in 2009 then got the call again this year to go back for six or seven weeks. William recently returned to the streets of BBC Scotland soap River City, his character Brian Henderson re-emerging as a sussed young man – a million miles from the troubled soul who was decanted from the fictional suburb into long-term psychiatric care a decade before.īrian Henderson (William Ruane) returns to visit his parents Eileen (Deirdre Davis) and Raymond (Paul Samson) in River City in 2009 It wasn’t until I was in my mid-20s that I started really taking it seriously.”īy which time, as the striking red-haired actor admits, the parts had started to dry up. I’d go to auditions and not have scripts memorised. “Back then, for me it was just turning up and doing it. “These days, when work comes along you have to put everything into it and give it your best.

“That was maybe my downfall back then and I wish those opportunities had come up now when I’m more mature and I know not to take things for granted. I was making money when I was 17, spending it, and wasn’t really thinking about anything more than enjoying life. “I was 17 when I started in River City, off the back of Sweet Sixteen,” said the 30-year-old. River City favourite Tom Urie returns to Shieldinch for one-off special.The following year, they landed parts in River City and the launchpad seemed primed. His performances were lauded as naturalistic and his talent hailed as raw and promising.Īs the flick collected multiple garlands touring the world’s film festival circuits, he and his co-stars Compston and Annemarie Fulton had expectant eyes trained upon them.

He was “Loached” – plucked from obscurity by filmmaker Ken – to co-star in Sweet Sixteen alongside Martin Compston. The 16-year-old was bedazzled as much by the fuss his appearance at Cannes Film Festival caused as he was by the allure of the life he imagined as a successful actor.įed by a media frenzy on the back of his debut in Ken Loach’s Sweet Sixteen at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, he’d have been forgiven for dreaming of days ahead giving Connolly-esque interviews from LA, romanticising his early doors on the streets of Castlemilk. She called the thousands of people who follow her blog or who visit the many backyard chicken Internet forums she posts on, “My best friends I've never met.STEPPING out on the red carpet under the spotlight of the global media, teenager William Ruane might have thought the photographers’ flashbulbs were lighting the road to his future. Scheuer's sense of what worked and what didn't. Readers' responses to the blog guided Ms. I want to write well enough to show how absolutely amazing these creatures are.” She described her approach: “I'm teaching myself to write. Scheuer, the “Scratch and Peck” blog, which she still writes, was a developmental stage of the book. With Lucy and her chicken friends, she said, “I had a story that had to be written.

PLUCKED FROM OBSCURITY FULL

“I have a drawer full of children's book stories that were never (fully) written because I didn't feel passionately about them.” Scheuer has illustrated a dozen or so children's books, primarily in the American Girl series, and continues to illustrate the American Girl Magazine contest page, she said she's always wanted to write, too.

Plucked from obscurity