I don't even know where to start. The past two days have been a bit of a whirlwind...so I guess I'll start at the beginning. Sunday morning was our photoshoot for GIRL PARTS and we had to start bright and early down in Venice. Well. Not really "bright" because it was a cloudy and cold day. If you looked at the pictures yesterday then you'll notice that we are wearing little black dresses...we were freezing! Luckily, Mel's mom is in town and came along to watch the shoot. She held our coats while we vogued and then quickly gave them to us between shots and locations. We did the bulk of the shoot on Abbot Kinney and then we went down to the beach. It was a lot of fun and I think we got some really good promo shots out of it. We were done there at noon, I had to race home to grab some lunch and then leave again for the reshoot of TIPS, the pilot I shot a few weeks back. There was a computer glitch and they lost footage, including our scene. So the bitches were back - as you saw above. Those are some shots from set. I particularly like the second picture where you can see the champagne spraying us. Once we were done there, I had to run home, change out of my champagne-sprayed clothes and go to the studio until 10:00 at night to monitor for class. Phew! That was a busy day. And then yesterday hit...
Yesterday was the day of auditions. The day started with the wonderful Fadhia coming over at 9:00 to help me run through my sides for the day. I had an audition for a dayplayer role on Young and the Restless and an audition for a contract role on All My Children - suddenly the soaps are interested in me - who knew? So there was a lot of material to rehearse. Thank goodness for good friends. She read through everything with me for an hour and then I had to get ready to go. My first audition was for Y&R at 11. How did it go? It could have gone better. I had a question about the sides, on the second page, so I referenced it when I was asking the question. And then when we started the audition...I still had the second page of dialogue on top. Which shouldn't have mattered because I had the scene memorized! But I stumbled. I should have asked to start right over....but I didn't. Live and learn. Shake it off and on to the next one.
The next one at 1:00 and was a callback for the commercial I went out for last week. Which should have gone great but I was the first one in the room - well, the first part of a "couple." They paired me up with a husband. And the room full of producers and directors wasn't quite sure what they wanted yet. A wide shot of both of us? Close ups of each? Smiles or no smiles? So the guys kept discussing what they wanted before, after and during our audition. Not a big deal because it is fun to see "the other side" of the casting process but I'm not sure if it is going to work to our advantage to be the guinea pigs of the callbacks. They hadn't found their rhythm yet and hopefully our ability to go with the flow will bode well for us. Or...they'll just delete the first "couple" from the tape because we didn't do what they ended up wanting from the audition. Oh well....on to the next one...
...Which was at 3:50 for the contract role on All My Children out in Glendale. (I was in Santa Monica for the commercial, by the way - my little car got some mileage yesterday) Anyway, the audition for AMC was the one I was most looking forward to all day. I worked hard on the sides getting coached on Saturday by S., running lines throughout my crazy Sunday - between shots both at the photo shoot and the pilot reshoot - working on it in the morning with Fadhia....I was prepared. How did it go? The casting director, Judy, couldn't have been more lovely. She was very nice and made me feel comfortable. And my reader, Greg, was very nice and welcoming. But I still felt nervous. And even though I was completely off book, I fumbled my lines a bit. Overall, now that I've stepped back from my first instinct which is to criticize everything I do in an audition, I think it went...well. I gave a solid audition and in all reality it will come down to a look. I hope Judy liked me enough that if I don't have the right look for this role, she'd be willing to bring me in for something else I'd be right for. Fingers crossed...we'll see!
Yesterday was the day of auditions. The day started with the wonderful Fadhia coming over at 9:00 to help me run through my sides for the day. I had an audition for a dayplayer role on Young and the Restless and an audition for a contract role on All My Children - suddenly the soaps are interested in me - who knew? So there was a lot of material to rehearse. Thank goodness for good friends. She read through everything with me for an hour and then I had to get ready to go. My first audition was for Y&R at 11. How did it go? It could have gone better. I had a question about the sides, on the second page, so I referenced it when I was asking the question. And then when we started the audition...I still had the second page of dialogue on top. Which shouldn't have mattered because I had the scene memorized! But I stumbled. I should have asked to start right over....but I didn't. Live and learn. Shake it off and on to the next one.
The next one at 1:00 and was a callback for the commercial I went out for last week. Which should have gone great but I was the first one in the room - well, the first part of a "couple." They paired me up with a husband. And the room full of producers and directors wasn't quite sure what they wanted yet. A wide shot of both of us? Close ups of each? Smiles or no smiles? So the guys kept discussing what they wanted before, after and during our audition. Not a big deal because it is fun to see "the other side" of the casting process but I'm not sure if it is going to work to our advantage to be the guinea pigs of the callbacks. They hadn't found their rhythm yet and hopefully our ability to go with the flow will bode well for us. Or...they'll just delete the first "couple" from the tape because we didn't do what they ended up wanting from the audition. Oh well....on to the next one...
...Which was at 3:50 for the contract role on All My Children out in Glendale. (I was in Santa Monica for the commercial, by the way - my little car got some mileage yesterday) Anyway, the audition for AMC was the one I was most looking forward to all day. I worked hard on the sides getting coached on Saturday by S., running lines throughout my crazy Sunday - between shots both at the photo shoot and the pilot reshoot - working on it in the morning with Fadhia....I was prepared. How did it go? The casting director, Judy, couldn't have been more lovely. She was very nice and made me feel comfortable. And my reader, Greg, was very nice and welcoming. But I still felt nervous. And even though I was completely off book, I fumbled my lines a bit. Overall, now that I've stepped back from my first instinct which is to criticize everything I do in an audition, I think it went...well. I gave a solid audition and in all reality it will come down to a look. I hope Judy liked me enough that if I don't have the right look for this role, she'd be willing to bring me in for something else I'd be right for. Fingers crossed...we'll see!
Which brings us to today. Today I have rehearsal for class but no class tonight. Ivana is off in London and Paris teaching this week, so we have the week off. I plan on snuggling up with the hubby tonight, watching LOST, GLEE, and Parenthood. Have you been watching Parenthood?? I love it - it is one of my favorite new shows. Definitely check it out if you haven't already.
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