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Wednesday, February 09, 2005


Call Backs and Used-To-Be Celebrities

#1. Ugh... a Call Back
Okay ... I should have stayed out late at the Egyptain Monday night, and seen Steamboy and had a good time. Because even though I went home, was well-rested and ready for Tuesdays audition call-back - personally, I think my second audition sucked. But maybe I am just being to hard on myself. I have a tendancy to do that.

Who knows about these things. I think my first audition for them was way better. But I always try to do the call-back audition just like I did it the first time. The first time they tape it, and the powers-that-be watch the tape. Then they decide to call you in for a second try in person.

So this second time I did what I did the first time. But I got the impression that they didn't like that. One person, I guess the director said it was to "cry-y". I guess meaning I was whining, and he didn't want that. So for the second run I took his direction and I toned down the anquished cry in my voice. Which puzzles me, because I whined during my lines in the first audition, which they saw on tape - and they still ask me to come in....
The good thing is that by adjusting my performance, I am showing the Director that I can take direction... and that is a good thing.
Then they wanted the guy next to me to read ALL the lines in the script (both mine and his), so they could hear his accent.

As I head out the door, one of the assistants asks me if I can stay and read one more time. I said yes I could. Turns out they were short on actresses to match up with the actors. So I went in again, with the assistant explaining that they didn't
have any more actresses in the waiting area. The Important Person in the Room said.. no, he just wanted the man to read all the lines, and I didn't need to go again because they already saw me. So the second actor read all the lines, mine and his and I just stood there, which was really strange. Then they said they wanted to hear HIS accent.

Well, I wasn't asked to do an accent ever so that somewhat confused me. The whole Call Back confused me. I mean if they asked me to read twice for them (even tho I ended up not reading twice after all), that must mean I didn't totally suck, right ?

I have always heard that once you leave the audition room, you should just forget about it - you might think you did lousy, but it will turn out that they really did like it - so you never know. And they must have liked something about me and my audition that it made them call me back. I guess I need to just get rid of my need to understand the process and "let it go".

#2. Semi-Celebrity Life
But interesting event while I was waiting in the waiting room area before my audition:
I was only waiting for about 20 mintues. But sitting in the waiting room area was a semi-well-known actress. She was auditioning for a different commerical in an a different audition room. She was very well-known quite a few years ago, maybe a few decades ago. If you are a Film Buff, and I said her name you would know who she was.
Okay, well, she is sitting relatively close to me for about 15 minutes. And in that amount of time, she made like 4 phone calls on her cell phone. And she was talking really really loud.

The conversations are all about how she is filming something at a really really Big movie studio tomorrow. And they called her for a costume fitting today, and she just couldn't make it because she is in such demand right now that her day is booked full without a moment to spare. And the fitting would just have to take place in the morning before they filmed. She said the name of the Big Big Movie studio really loud like 4 times - to make sure everyone in the room heard it.

So then, I guess someone had to mail something to her. And this used-to-be-movie star, gives out what I think was her home address and phone number within ear shot of 20 other actors whom are complete strangers. By this time, I don't think she realized how loud she was speaking, she was so lost in her self-absorbed behavior, that she never realized everyone in the room heard her private information.

Well, I know she was doing all this for effect. Because they called her name for her audition, and she jumped up and then gave me a smug grin like she knew I was listening, and - la-de-da - wasn't she really something.

Funny thing is, we weren't up for the same role. I was in another room auditioning for another commercial. So were about half of the other actors in the waiting area. But all of this was a little trick that actors will play on their competition to try to freak them out. She was trying to make it sound like she was really in demand and popular so that the other actresses who were up for the same role would be intimidated by her when they auditioned. But in reality, what it is: This is a Used-to-be-Movie-Star who has to use manipulation and negativity to make herself feel better about her own audition chances.
What a step down from where she used to be. And very sad indeed.



posted by Donna Grayson  # 11:58 PM
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