This was a real treat. I spent a whole afternoon shooting portraits of Warwick Davis, the world’s most famous little person (3ft6”) and superstar actor in a London studio. The photographs were for the cover of Warwick’s autobiography, Size Matters Not and it’s a top class story. Warwick’s a very funny, charming and professional man and was up for anything to get the perfect photograph – even swinging from an iron bar at one point! This swinging picture photograph ended up on the book’s spine, so it looks as though Warwick’s hanging from the ‘T’ of ‘Not’.
Warwick showed me some of the photographs from his life that were going into the book and, while I’m sure most people would be interested to see him with Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas, I was most interested in his wedding photographs. With a mixture of normal-sized and little guests (his best man was 6ft3”), it must have been quite a challenge for the photographer!
Incidentally, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are writing, producing and directing a comedy show for the BBC starring Warwick. Called Life’s Too Short, Warwick stars as a darker version of himself (think The Office but with David Brent as a little person). It’s sure to be a massive hit.
I’m hoping to take some portraits of Karl Pilkington (the now infamous friend of Ricky and Stephen and the star of An Idiot Abroad) for a project in the New Year. If I do, I’ll post a selection of photographs of the round-headed one here…