There and back again...
I had an audition for a film yesterday...only problem was the audition was in San Diego. Compounding that, I was supposed to have an audition for a play back in Los Angeles on the same day as well as having about 15 people over my house for a little get together. What to do, what to do.
My manager (who rocks and I couldn't be happier with...actually I love both Maria and my commercial agent Judy...they are total rock stars and work so hard for and with me. I can't wait to make them both a boatload of cash for believing in me so much...but I digress) got the play audition changed to Sunday so that took care of that. I still had the people coming over but the auditions in SD were from 9-noon so I figured I could do both.
Maria made sure this was something I wanted to do and she did the research on the production and the company. It's a low budgeted (about 3 million) sex comedy type thing (American Pie, Caddyshack...that sort of thing) and they had the funding and resources and also had some other projects getting funded. So it sounded worth it to me to at least make a go of it, go down there for the audition and maybe energetically let the Universe know: "Hey, I'm willing to go pretty far for this...so help me out huh?"
I spent Friday night reading the script (note to any would-be offers of acting work out there...I read all the scripts I have access to. If you have the entire script available and want to read me, rest assured I will have read the script before coming in and not just the parts with 'my character' in them.) and then got up at 7:00 AM Saturday to begin the trek.
Accompanied by the lovely Amber and her kick ass Prius we hit the road by 8:00 and made amazing time. We got to the audition a little after 10:00. I do my weird little actor-y prep type stuff and go in for the read. I felt good about it and don't feel I held back anything, so that's about all you can do. It's 11:00 now as we hope back into the car and head on back to Los Angeles.
We get back to my house at 1:30 (hit a little traffic around Commerce) and promptly crash for a little 20 minute nap before I have to go get pizzas and people start arriving. I'm glad I didn't cancel the poker game as I won both tournaments (hehe).
The entire evening ended at about 11:30 and I was wiped out. I was also starving and I thanked the heavens for allowing me to live two blocks from a 24 hour Carls Jr. One Jalapneo Burger and a viewing of a DVR'ed episode of Denis Leary's Rescue Me and it was off to bed with visions of movie sets and all in poker bets fresh in my head.
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