I'm Not Gaspard Ulliel

I received a weird email yesterday.

It requires a bit of background first. In one of my previous incarnations I worked as a writer for a film website in New York. The site encouraged 'reader participation' so with every article I wrote there would be a link by my name which would lead to my email address.

This led to a number of interesting emails. I received a few from Sylwia who lived in Warsaw and wanted to become a journalist. She was very sweet and would write in broken English to me. For example...

'To have work, job which is at the same time our passion, love is the most wonderful thing all over the world'

or

'I would like to say that net is amazing thing that enable us to contact, to find (in some way), to share for examples passion'

But yesterday, having not worked on the site for 18 months or so, I received a random email. Once before I had been mistaken for one of the actors I had written a spotlight on. Ben Foster actually. That guy who seems unable to portray any other emotion but anger in films such as 30 Days of Night and Alpha Dog. Some teenage girl added me to her msn believing I was he. She was rather disappointed.

Which brings me to yesterday's odd email.

It read:

hello you don't no me but i love the film Hannibal rising you look well fit and you are a proper good actor ..xx
everyone says that they think i would be come a killer when im older coz i keep on having dreams on killing people and talking bout killing people
lol big fans jacy xx

Obviously confused for Gaspard Ulliel, the star of Hannibal Rising, the email was some attempt at a prank, I assume and hope. Jacy is obviously not the smartest person around since you have to actually click on my name to get to my email address. Jacy also thinks of him or herself as quite the comedian. But quite why a teenager would choose to prank Gaspard Ulliel is beyond me. I can hardly imagine Jacy's friends being impressed. 'Oh you know he was that one from A Very Long Engagement.'

Or perhaps Jacy is as unhinged as the email initially suggests. Maybe he or she was using this email as a cry for help. Maybe I'll stumble upon a story detailing Jacy's vicious crimes as an adult. Maybe they'll all be modelled around the killings in Hannibal Rising. 'I tried to stop! I warned Gaspard that I would do this and he did nothing!'

Or there is the possibility that one of my friends is using this to take the piss out of me and this blog posting will prove that I was totally suckered by them. I stupidly sent an email back saying 'good luck with that' which, if we're going with the second explanation, means that I really could be to blame for Jacy's future killings.

If you're reading this Jacy then please please just do one thing. If you're going to base your entire killing career upon a movie then at least think about your choice first. No one will remember you for this.