SCHOOLBOY actor Cameron Strefford has a story or two to tell after filming a role in the new film version of Les Miserables.

Cameron, ten, who lives at Copyhold in Great Bedwyn, with his parents Mike and Anthea, and brother Benjamin, six, plays one of Gavroche’s urchins in the film, due out in December.

He spent part of his Easter holiday in Greenwich, London, rubbing shoulders with the film’s main stars, Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman and Ann Hathaway.

Cameron became friends with Crowe’s two sons and even got in an argument with the older boy, Charlie, about who directed Star Wars and, said Cameron, he won.

When Crowe noticed Cameron’s shoelaces had come undone he knelt down in fatherly fashion to do them up, and when the film’s producer, Cameron Mackintosh, asked the budding actor what his name was, his reply was: “Cameron – that’s a great name!”

Young Cameron said he was looking forward to seeing the story unfold on screen because he never had the opportunity to see the stage production.

He has been acting, singing and dancing since he was six, with Marlborough Stagecoach, and also sings at Great Bedwyn School.

His success to date, said his mother, is largely due to the fact he was signed on by top agency Sylvia Young, whose success stories have included Denise van Outen, Amy Winehouse and Swindon actress Billie Piper.

Cameron has already had parts in West End theatre productions of Singin’ in the Rain and the Wizard of Oz, but his biggest breakthrough to date, the actor said, was being in Les Miserables.

As an urchin living in the Elephant of the Bastille, in one scene, said his mother, Cameron had to dash from the huge glass fibre and steel elephant to escape a cavalry charge and, as she put it: “He came down from the elephant like a rat out of a hole”.

Cameron’s scenes in the movie should last about five minutes and he said he could hardly wait to take his parents and brother to see the finished film.

With a cheeky, impish grin, lots of confidence and angelic looks, there is every chance Cameron could follow in the footsteps of other child actors.

And just to make sure everyone knows what his ambition is, Cameron said: “I want to do more acting on film and stage.”