Actress Confessions

Day 681 - 683 - Call Back for the Bridesmaid Role

Let me first start to tell you about the audition. I bring my ugliest bridesmaid dress and stroll into the casting office. I'm thankful that the audition was at 6:00 p.m. so I could leave from work and go straight to the audition.

So I check -in and I look around the room. We are all dressed in some ugly outfits. The only ladies that look good are auditioning for the bride role in the commercial, so they are wearing some stunning wedding dresses. 

Ahhhh....always a bridesmaid...never a bride. But I digress...

Anyways, I'm invited into the casting room with a bride. We do the scene.

The casting director gives the bride an adjustment and for me says ' I love everything you are doing...omg it's funny!"

I'm totally rocking it and I can feel it and as I'm leaving the audition room the casting director says " You did a great job".

At that point I knew I had secured a call back and the next day my agent sends me an email confirming it.

What happened at the call back...

I arrive at the call back and the assistant asks if someone can go ahead of me as they have a rehearsal going on and need to get back to the theatre. So I agree.

So I'm then paired up with what I would like to say is the least prepared individual there. This bride isn't wearing a dress (although the casting agent asked for it). She's wearing jean shorts and a t-shirt. Just take into consideration that everyone and I mean everyone is dressed up.

So then we get into the audition room, she's so green (green = new to the business), she can't take direction she's overacting, the director is getting upset with her performance and he keeps giving her adjustments. She sounds and is acting really fake... When she screams it sounds like someone is torturing her...not screams of delight. I'm in my own horror movie, right then and there --- in what is suppost to be a comedy.

The scene isn't working - I'm doing my best to play off my scene partner, because it take two to tango...

The director thanks us, comments on how much he liked my dress and then I walk out that room and immediately know that I didn't book it.

Nope...Nada... Goodbye National commercial that would make me BIG BUCKS...

I let my agent know what happened. We wait for a response what I already knew was confirmed.

I didn't get the role.

What I Learned

681 - Keep your head up, you'll get the next one kiddo!

Day 670 - 680 - Bridesmaid Audition!

Another audition tomorrow - I had to miss one on Monday as it was so short notice that I wouldn't have been able to make it...

Just as I thought that really sucks an audition lost - another audition pops up! WOW it seems like I'm really getting out there.

I'm playing a bridesmaid in a commercial. One line - jealous... think mean stepsister. I can do mean! It's a commercial so it pays BIG Bucks! Crossing my fingers I get this one!

And to top it off the casting agent said, " if you happen to have a "tacky bridesmaid dress", it would be great to bring it and wear it for the audition."

So I guess I need to raid my closet now!

What I learned

670 - Another audition is just around the corner!

Day 649 - 669 - Auditions! Auditions!

Let me give you a run down on what has been going on in the last couple of weeks - auditions, auditions!

So I get an email from my agent about a medical tv show audition that she wanted me to look at. What's awesome was when I read the 8 page sides, I thought that the show sounded pretty good. I had less then one day to learn my lines and since the show was auditioning in Montreal she asked me to self tape my audition to send into casting.

I don't have a video camera and I'm not sure how well my iphone would record so I decided to book a session at my acting studio so that I could put it on tape! (There goes 90 dollars...ouch!)

So I'm totally busy all day with work (work that pays the bills) and I have this pounding headache aka the migrane from hell....so the lines that I'm trying to learn or thought I learned are a complete mess in my head.

I finish a long day at work and I head over to the studio, I see my acting teacher and we start talking through the audition material. I love this part, lawyer turned doctor - bossy, caring, sharp...I like her and I want this role....

After an hour of shooting, we've got a good audition, can't say it was my best audition peice but good. My teacher sends it over to my agent.

I'm excited, I managed to be ready for a big audition - 8 pages of script and all put onto tape in less then 24 hours.

Then my agent emails me the next day. Thanks for getting your tape in, it must have taken you some time but casting decided to go in a different direction.

Fuuuuuuuukkkkkkkk.....

What I Learned

669 - At least I have some good material to put into my demo...so I guess I learned to look on the bright side.