One at a time

Oh my, oh my.  How time does fly.  It is November....November!  Hope you all enjoyed your Halloween weekend.  Ours was a bit low key this year and we didn't get as many trick-or-treaters as we have in years past...which means there is now leftover candy to contend with.  I guess someone has to eat it (ahem).  Ok, so there are two fun things to catch you up on.  Parenthood and The Tonight Show.  I'll save the latter for later.  First up....Parenthood!

Parenthood Panel:

You could tell how much this cast really enjoys working with each other and how the family dynamic that they've created on the show has now seeped into their lives...or vise versa.  The moderator did a great job of asking interesting questions, like how did you get your start?  What was you "big break"?  What do you know now that you wish you knew then?  The kind of questions that resonated with most of the actors in the room since we are all hoping to get a show of our own someday.  A few from the cast started in commercials - yay!  And I thought Sam Jaegar said something pretty insightful in regards to auditioning.  He said he finally reached the point where he stopped caring about what "they" wanted and just started doing the roles he read for for himself.  As actors we often get in our head about trying to give casting what they are looking for so that we get the job.  But when does that work?  Rarely, if ever.  We aim to please and we miss the mark.  I was actually talking about this last week with a friend, F.T., and she said, 'Most of the time, this is the only time I will ever get to play the role - in the audition.  Why not have fun with it and do exactly what I want?  Either I am the part or I'm not.  I'm never going to be it if I'm not.'  Goes back to the sage words of Rick Nelson....

You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself.