Was watching the film Then She Found Me (details at IMDB) last week. The movie was ok but I would probably have turned it off but as I was working at the same time it flowed in the background and did not demand much from me. The reason I was even watching the movie was that it had some good actors. Anyway in the middle of the film the main character has a doctors appointment and the actor playing the doctor is… Salman Rushdie!!
Since he is one of my favorite writers it made me pay attention for a while – mainly I was kind of shocked. The man who wrote Midnights Children, Grimus, Shalimar and Satanic Verses was playing a minor character in a ordinary little film. Rushdie played himself in Bridget Jones’s Diary (IMDB details) but that made more sense. And now this! How odd and yet how fun. This ordinary little film all of a sudden achieved a new depth. But I wonder if many people would recognize him? I can’t say that I would recognize many of my favorite authors.