Well not quite, but according to British Film Magazine you’d be forgiven to taking a double take and thinking that mind twisting mentalist Derren Brown is trying to top up his income waiting a few tables..
Medium Rare is a “dark film combining danger, lust, desire and fear in an erotic game“, directed by Stefan Stuckert, who previously worked on Peep Show and Derren Brown’s TV shows.
It opens with the your “average Joe” type – that would be Steve, here called Carl – on the run from a gang in somewhere like 1930s Paris, diving into an expensive restaurant where a beautiful woman, Sara Stewart (aka Camille), is dining alone and surprises Carl by demanding his attention. Cornered he has to believe his luck has changed and enlists the lovely Sara as his ally, knowing that one false move from either of them will cost him his life. But salvation has a price. This is the movies after all
The waiter is actually played by Derren Brown in his first film role (and not just someone’s who’s lucky enough to look like Derren!). The film has it’s UK premiere at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival before heading off around the world’s festival circuit.