hi everyone it's me danny harmer also known as tracy beaker and this is my ask me anything
thank you so much for all your questions that came in so let's get to it
oh what made me get into acting i think it was probably watching loads of musicals when
i was younger my favorite film was annie and so i loved the fact that
all these kids were dancing and singing and i just so wanted to be in that film
being tracy beaker again is absolutely awesome my goodness have i missed this
character so it feels absolutely wicked to be back
my favorite person oh that's so difficult because everyone i've worked with is so lovely um but if
i have to pick one i think i'm gonna go with my other og and that's lisa coleman who plays cam
my favorite memory from filming tracy beaker has got to be our very first day because i was
so nervous and absolutely terrified but all day it was just me and lisa coleman who plays cam
and we filmed all of the scenes in her flat and so it was actually really nice
just it being the two of us because we got to know each other really well and
she's absolutely amazing so i used to love sitting there and watching her act
i got the part of tray speaker when i was just 12 years old and it was a pretty standard um
process really i just went for an audition just like you do with parts so you'd go into a room
you'd meet the director and the producer and you just read the script and basically
i just went in there and i shouted quite a lot and then here i am now i got the park
the thing i miss most about playing tracy beaker has got to be the character itself
she is so fun to play um one minute she's really happy the next minute
she's shouting the next minute she's sad it's just a dream for an actor to
be honest she is just such a wicked character and i really did miss her
would i be friends with tracy beaker or would i be slightly terrified of her it's an interesting
question no i think i'd be really good friends with her because deep down underneath for the
bravado she's actually got a heart of gold and you can tell that she'd be such a loyal friend
oh i love playing games um i think it's the my favorite has got to be the classic i spy
i love it because i always pick really really obscure things so people will never get it
and then that means i win if i could be in a movie i think it would probably be lord of the
rings because i am such a massive nerd and i just really want to be an elf i want to have that long
blonde straight hair with the pointy ears probably because it's totally opposite to how i look
my curly hair routine is you wash it you do this that's basically it
um but when you've got curly hair conditioner that's your best friend
how am i thank you so much that is a question that we just don't ask each other enough
um at the moment i'm actually really good uh lockdown's been a bit strange as it has for
all of us but i am so lucky that i have the most wonderful family and friends around me
my favorite thing i've done in lockdown is probably getting back into reading actually
i felt like i sort of fell out of love with reading a little bit i kind of didn't ever
give it enough time i was always so busy so it's actually really nice i've kind of every single
evening before i get into bed i make sure that i read at least a couple of chapters
um and yeah i just love reading so much so i'm glad that i've definitely got back into that
we're all still really good friends and it's just really difficult at the moment because none of us
have seen each other in forever and we also live all over the place so it's really hard
to get us all together um but this year it will be 20 years since we started filming i know i
am actually really really old um so hopefully we can all get together even if it is just on zoom
oh my favorite scene that's really difficult because there was loads we used to all when
we were younger really enjoy all the food fight scenes until we were actually in them
and then we realized actually it's pretty gross we had a food fight once with yogurt
it was the height of summer and we had to finish at lunch time and stay covered
in yoga all throughout lunch oh i tell you what the smell was disgusting but still fun
did i ever sympathize with elaine no she was a pain um no i'm just kidding actually
she she meant well didn't she she was just trying her best
and i suppose the kids could have been a little bit nicer to her
did i ever keep anything well don't tell anyone but i have kept a couple of clapperboards they're
somewhere up in the loft and i've also kept tracy beaker's famous tea jumper i don't think they know
that i took that actually please don't tell anyone do i collect anything um do you know what i don't
know whether i do i do really enjoy collecting books because i think they look really pretty
sometimes i don't even get around to reading them um but yeah i think that's about it actually
any funny stories i do remember when we were younger there was a fart machine that used to
make an appearance every now and again but i couldn't possibly tell you whose it was
i actually don't know maybe i should find that out and also when we were filming my mum tracy beaker
every single time we filmed outside it rained every single time but it was still fun
oh my favorite animal is a turtle
cats or dogs uh cats
i've told loads of people to bog off in real life my favorite character's tracy bieger
have i ever no i haven't i'm sorry jacqueline wilson thank you all again so much for all
your amazing questions quite a lot of them stirred up some really happy memories for me
and i'm so sorry i couldn't get through all of them but they were all absolutely wonderful
so make sure you watch the new series my mom tray speaker on iplayer and i'll see you soon
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