Dear Diary,
I’ve had some auditions this past week and I’m feeling confused about things.
Last Friday: I attended an audition for a major feature film that’s coming to town next month. It’s backed by a studio and has big-name stars attached to it. The parts I auditioned for are really tiny, but I’d like to get one. That way, at least I’d feel like the casting director likes me. This casting director hardly ever calls me in and I don’t know why. I’m great at keeping in touch and illustrating that I’m continuously working, so I’m perplexed that I’m not called in more. Oh, well. I have to keep plugging away, right?
Monday: Another casting director called me last-minute to audition for a lead role in another feature film coming to the area. I really liked the character and her role in the story so I spent considerable time defining her and making conscious choices. Based on what I knew, I even anticipated … Read more »
Exciting news, friends! I’ve just learned the experimental sci-fi feature film I worked on, Circuit, has begun making the film festival rounds, already acquiring some kudos along the way. In Circuit, I play the on-the-beat news reporter who helps to reveal some important information. (There is a snippet of my improvised reporting at the end of the film’s trailer.)
This project is the feature film debut for Boston-based writer and director Andrew Landauro. It was accepted to the Tenth Annual Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival (RIIHFF)–a subset of the Rhode Island International Film Festival–in October and was awarded Best Picture, beating out more than 250 entrants. The same month, it screened at the Fargo Fantastic Film Festival, a part of Valley Con, a pop culture weekend catering to movies, comics, and celebrity guests. Prior to that, Circuit kicked off a new film series at the historic Loring-Greenough House in … Read more »
More than a year ago, I hosted a bloggy give-away associated with this photo:
Remember the tackiness? I do. Well, last evening a friend of mine came up to me and said straight away, “Oh! I saw you in
The Box!”
“You did?!”, I replied incredulously. ”I didn’t think my scenes would make it in there.” In fact they did, it seems. I am somewhere to be seen in The Box with Cameron Diaz and James Marsden. Apparently some aspect of my work as a NASA technician made it into the movie and, yes, this photo documents the circa-1975 outfit in which I was bedecked for the role. (It’s slightly Mary Tyler Moore, don’t you think?)
Now I just need to see the movie…
Last weekend I saw the new Ricky Gervais/Jennifer Garner flick The Invention of Lying and I am pleased to say high praise goes to my friends Andrea, Celeste, Doug, Ellen and Michele who were all in the movie. Not only are they fabulous actors and lovely friends, but they’re now even more famous! Furthermore, Mr. Gervais should be recognized for being “an actor’s actor”, as Michele commented. Though her scene and Doug’s scene didn’t make it into the final cut of the film, each of them received notes stating it was a pleasure to work with them, their scenes turned out very well and each will receive copies of the scenes for their reels.
Quite a distinct and classy move by Mr. Gervais, I … Read more »
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