Today I had an appointment with an amazing casting director (West Wing, ER, Southland). Now granted, I've yet to book any projects he's brought me in for, but I always feel special when I read for him. Like I'm in the cool kid club....at least in my head, anyway.
So today I read for him for this new Untitled Medical pilot. And before the audition, we chatted about pilot season -- how crazy it is, yada yada -- but I also shared with him that I can't wait to just book the right show so I wouldn't have to audition anymore.
(Sometimes, I get a little too comfortable, and forget that these are still job interviews...bizarre ones, but interviews nonetheless).
So anyway, I do my audition, and at the end, do you know what he says to me? John Levey looks at me and says, "I don't think you have to worry. You're gonna be off the market very soon."
I know, right? Amazing. So sweet. The kind of thing that would illicit a "thank you," or a big hug, or a "that's awesome," or even just a gracious smile.
Instead, what words come flying out of my mouth like an evangelical preacher? THANK YOU JESUS!
The man gives me a compliment, and I suddenly turn into the church girl I've never been.
Wait...come to think of it, I didn't just say "thank you jesus" -- I dramatically put my hands up in the air like I was praising God right there in Building 17 of the Warner lot.
Thank god I didn't start speaking in tongues.
I told you. Sometimes I get a little too comfortable.
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i had an audition like this around the same date. i had driven for four hours to get there, and was exhausted. it was a huge hail/snow/rainstorm (oh canada...) and i arrived looking disheveled despite driving up in comfy jeans, changing into a kick-ass outfit in my car in a parking lot so my clothes wouldn't be wrinkled (because i was lost and couldn't find a pit stop to save my life, not because i habitually change in parking lots), re-did my make up/hair in said car, was reading my sides while driving in said horror conditions.
ReplyDeletei got there, they were running behind (is everyone always running behind?), waited for three others to do their auditions, finally got in there (at which point they told me to lose the script i'd spent the last four hours reciting in the car and to ad lib the entire back and forth) did my best and got the best reaction ever from the casting director & producer: "wow, that was brilliant. it's like it's already your show".
you would think i would be elated and i was. as i ran through the rain back to my car, smile plastered across my face i couldn't imagine having had a better audition, and damn it, after such a day i felt i deserved it. well... the gods were not on my side... about 45 minutes later as i was trying desperately to drive home, completely lost on the other side of the city i had just auditioned in i got a call back... but not exactly the one we all hope to get "hi, is this ..? we know you're probably on the road, but we've had a technical issue and lost all the footage of your audition, can you come back and re-read?"
well... i did. i finally found some sense of direction and got back there. but the producer who had been so enthusiastic about me had already left by the time i got back and i was reading just for the cd that was there. the piece went well, and we had quite a few laughs but it certainly wasn't as stellar as my first audition (the cd didn't have the knowledge of the producer who had done the back and forth with me initially and we ended up talking about mundane-subject matter hardly related to the audition, i had become WAY too comfortable and the cd ended up doubling over laughing from the comedy of our dialogue, though it probably didn't present me in my best light)... i was on the way out walking with the cd when she told me how much the producer had enjoyed my audition and said that even if i didn't book that project, he'd probably be in touch in the near future for another project he had on the go.
well... by this time it was dark out, the snow was causing visibility to be so bad that i had no choice but to grab a hotel room for the night 1/3 of the way home, and i got a call saying a very young family friend had tragically (and very unexpectedly) passed away...
not my best audition experience, and i didn't book the job, but hustle hustle! we all keep on trucking... (or driving determinedly come hell, highwater or whatever freaky obstacles mother nature and "destiny" have in store for us...)
Hahahaha I think we've all done something like that.
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