[ SECRET POST #5959 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5959 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Have you ever sent fanmail?

[(Anonymous)]

I've written a couple of fan letters to actors. One was to an actor at a theatre, so I just addressed it to him at the stage door, and basically said how much I'd loved his performance in the role. I couldn't stay late enough to get autographs (I had to catch a train) so I included my playbill and a SAE and asked if he could sign and return it to me, which he did (with a lovely note).

The other, he had an official website so I emailed the admin person and asked what address I should sent a letter to, and they replied (with what I think was his PA's address). I can't even remember exactly what I wrote... It was to an actor who I'd had a crush on when I was 6, then rediscovered the TV show when I was in my late 30s, and was also having a mid-life crisis. Uh. It was an intense time in my head. It was after reading his autobiography that I felt I just had to reach out and express something about the connection I felt to him, and his work. So I wrote some kind of probably pretty stereotypical fan letter about how I'd loved his character in that show as a child, then rediscovered it and loved his character so much more deeply as an adult, and really enjoyed his book because he was really funny and I related to this and that and yadda yadda etc. God, honestly, it makes me cringe to think about writing the fan letter... I sent it to a friend to "proof read" (as in tell me it was fine to send and did not sound deranged or weird). Then mailed it. And have not re-read it since. (This was about a decade ago. Also, writing this right now, I am very high, so if this comment reads weird, that's why.)

So, wait, what? Oh yeah. Anyway, I sent my fan letter off and it was fine. I didn't get a reply to that one, but it turned out that I'd sent it at a time when the actor was going through severe health problems, so hopefully it was nice for him to know people still cared enough to be sending him fan mail (he was a smallish TV star by this many decades later).

Re: Have you ever sent fanmail?

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like a lovely thing you did. I imagine receiving a fan letter when I was going through an awful period and really appreciating it, but not necessarily feeling up to responding.