An actor who
stars with Tom Hanks in his latest film could be off to Hollywood – as pals in
his local plan to turn a digital whip-round into a movie and send him to the première.
Marty
Docherty, 38, landed the role of Hanks’s brother in the Warner Bros movie Cloud
Atlas.
He spent days
in Berlin shooting for the film alongside an all-star cast including Halle
Berry, Hugh Grant and Susan Sarandon.
But he
admitted to pals Ian Bustard and Martyn Robertson over a pint in Glasgow’s
Griffin Bar that he couldn’t afford the trip to Los Angeles for the
star-studded opening night.
The pair –
both documentary film-makers – have hatched a plan to get him there so he can
become Scotland’s next blockbuster star.
They are
making their own movie charting his journey, titled Marty Goes To Hollywood,
and have launched a Facebook appeal, getmartytohollywood.
They hope the
Scottish public will get behind Marty by donating to the project to help raise
the £10,000 needed to send him to LA in October. Last night, Marty, 38, said:
“I can’t believe they have done all of this after just a wee conversation in the
pub.
“Obviously,
going to the première doesn’t guarantee me anything but it definitely won’t
hinder me and I think it could open doors.
“I have been
acting for 15 years so, if I’m ever going to get to Hollywood and really make
it there, then now’s the time. When I was in Berlin filming, I shot scenes with
Halle Berry and Hugo Weaving, who was in The Matrix. I met Hugh Grant in
make-up and he was so nice.
“They were
interested in what I was doing and who I was playing. I couldn’t quite believe I
was there.
“I really
hope I can go to the première. It’s such an all-star line-up and I’m sure it
will be spectacular.”
Ian and
Martyn, who between them have 30 years’ experience in the film and
entertainment industry, have set up meetings for Marty with a host of Scots-born
stars including Robert Carlyle, Gerard Butler and Brian Cox.
They will
also organise for him to speak with casting directors and producers.
Ian, 41,
said: “When you are part of the hottest property in town, you soon become the
hottest property in town yourself. That’s why he has to be at that première.
“When Tommy
Flanagan was in Braveheart, he went over to LA for the première and never came
back.
“We want the
Scottish public to see the great opportunity Marty has and support him. He is
well known here having had parts in Dear Green Place and Still Game.
“But
Hollywood is the next step and we want to follow his journey as he tries to get
there. He will be swapping the hills of Castlemilk for the hills of LA.”
Martyn, 31,
said: “He has a good chance here and we want the public – both here and in
America – to get behind him.
“We have set
up a crowd-funding website where people can buy things like the chance to have
their name on the credits of the film or a signed DVD from Marty.
“The items
for sale vary from about £4.50 to £800. We want people to have fun with it.
“Yes, this is
about a local boy who has done well but it’s much more than that too.”
The Cloud
Atlas crew shot some of the scenes for the film in Glasgow last September.
