Marvel star Samuel L Jackson has been spotted by an eagle-eyed local on a street in Bathgate after a near four-hour hunt.
Deborah Gemmell posted on Facebook that she had been ‘stalking’ the star and posted a video of him on Mid Street.
She shouts “Nick Fury” at him as she drives by and the star jokes: “This is the third time you’ve been by!”
Jackson is in West Lothian filming for a new Marvel production, believed to be Secret Invasion or The Marvels.
Deborah said: “It was a wee bit excitement for Bathgate last night.
“My son loves Marvel so I couldn’t not take him out last night to find him.
“We drove along the Mid street around 40 or 50 times from around 5.30pm until around 9pm looking for him and eventually seen him, although he must have spotted us first because he said that was three times we had went by.
“I was driving and my friend Mo was in passenger seat taking pics and videos and my son was in the back.
“He was filming in the street. That’s why I kept driving up and down as all the film crew were out there and crowds of people. They were there from 5pm until 11pm last night doing a car scene for one of his new movies.”
“I did the same pre covid with my son to see Lewis Capaldi lol and managed to get a photo with him and my son gave him a milkshake and a protein bar!”
He was first spotted at Almond Valley Heritage Centre in Livingston filming scenes at a nearby church, before the production team moved to the Tony Macaroni stadium.
Heritage Centre staff took to Facebook to say: “A string of big fancy trailers parked up in our field, providing base camp for cast and crew as they filmed at various local locations. It was (and is) all very top-secret and even if we knew more, we wouldn’t clype.
“Suffice to say, we’re preparing a commemorative plaque, proudly stating “somewhere near this bush, make-up was applied to Samuel L. Jackson.
“Saturday and Sunday were supposed to be quiet days for the film production, with the big trailers shunted into a corner of the field so as not to get in the way of our visitors.
“But plans changed, (that’s showbiz) and the full crew decided to move out today, just as happy visitors were arriving for a mother’s day visit to Almond Valley. Our apologies if anyone was inconvenienced by all these goings-on – these marvels don’t happen every day.”
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