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that's a wrap
I am impatient.
When I start obsessing over something I want it yesterday. Some things I have no problem letting go while others fester like an old bag of chicken neck baits on a hot summer pier. That is really nasty if you’re wondering.
I just wrapped the Redmonton webseries and I feel so much emotional turmoil. I am so happy to now reap the benefits of all the long hours spent getting off-book, running lines, developing my character and filming. I am so ready to start something new and really great but at the same time I have to try and be patient and strategically plan my next steps get all my tools together and proceed with a knockout plan.
This webseries was such a blessing though. I really learned and spent so much time in front of the camera it literally became invisible. The cast and crew were so much fun and really talented.
I haven’t actually been submitting to much of anything else lately because of the commitment to the series so I am excited to get back out there. Just totally impatient. I think to make matters even worse is I surprisingly booked two gigs just last week! Of course they were scheduled to both film on the same day so I had to stick with my first commitment but it seems like the long hours on the webseries has really helped my audition technique.
I don’t have a lot of BTS but here are a few snaps from the past couple months filming (in absolutely no particular order)….
table read
I think I heave serious commitment issues. Like when I commit to something, then regret it and wish I didn’t have to do it, then stress over it and stress over it and stress over it until I get there and have an amazing time and am SO HAPPY I did it. Until the next commitment… vicious cycle, press repeat.
I had known about “table read” for a while. It was a Sunday evening-ish and about an hour and a half away, I knew I would be home late and I didn’t know what it would be like and I was stressing I was going to suck or blow or just whatever word is “in” right now for being a total lame duck.
I arrived on-time and parked right next to one of the other girls in the cast so at least the intimidation of walking into a room of people staring at me was reduced. It was still a bit intimidating walking in there, not knowing what the process was going to be like. Is the producer strict? Is she mean is she snippy??? I was nervous.
First we did a photoshoot for the promotional material. So, you know when you don’t shave and you have to lay your hairy legs all in the laps and over top three other strange women? Oh, you don’t know what that’s like? Ok, well it is embarrassing. In my defense, I wore long capris and didn’t plan on snuggeling, but whatever – we’re all friends now! How about that moment the photographer asks you to take off your shoes and put your feet up on the coffee table and you remember you have the feet of an eighty-nine year old women which are currently died black from the gardening mulch? Yes, that also happened. At least I don’t have anything to be nervous about anymore. I might as well farted at dinner.
I gotta be honest though, having a photoshoot with a bunch of girls in the park on the water ain’t half bad. Actually it was very enjoyable.
The table read was also so fun and such a great learning experience. So cheesy, I know. But I googled table reads for like three days trying to figure out exactly what I was going to have to do. Now I am totally prepped for when I land that co-star role.
How hollywood does this picture look? Damn, should have gotten a mineral water. All famous people drink that weird mineral water that comes in that I Dream of Jeannie shaped green bottle. Must remember that for next time.
Well, here’s the cast. It’s almost like I have friends. Can’t wait to post more once we start filming!!! Two weeks count down… #nervouspooping
who the bleep
O just wrapped her first episodic. She’s on fire! She got cast about a week ago to play the leads 5yo daughter. Super sweet! The show is Who the Bleep Did I Marry on Investigation Discovery.
She rocked too, obviously.
I can’t give any details until the show airs but she had a blast! Well, I never know if she has fun or not. Guess anything is better than sitting at home – but it’s actually work. We keep asking her if she likes doing “acting” and she says YES. So she’s the boss!
That’s O and her fake big sister Kelly. That’s W too running around like a child that hadn’t napped. She even has crazy hair.
I will let everyone know once the show airs!!
take 3, talent that is
After the YMCA commercial I went a little cray and started submitting O to all these prestigious talent agencies. And by prestigious I mean legit. God knows I have been duped by enough acting/modeling hotel, pay money to get a gig, stupid – stupid scams in one lifetime. So I did some digging around the web and decided I would submit to 5 agencies. I got an email back from two saying they were full of O’s look/age/ whatever, but I actually got a phone call from one who was interested.
While I’m all shitting my pants over it, C is so logical and realistic about it. We agree to schedule the appointment and go see what the deal is. SO we plan a little family NY day trip – awesome!
Actually it was a disaster. Tickets were so expensive because I waited till last second to buy them, we left in like the middle of the night because I thought we could just sleep on the way up there, ugh no. O was too excited and the train was a fiery hot shuttle though hell. I swear it was nine million degrees in this thing, I stripped down to almost my birthday suit. It was bad.
We got there and it was worse. I don’t plan things, lesson learned. It was sub zero temperatures – truthfully I don’t even know what that means but it was freaking cold regardless, too cold for O. So we found a McDonald’s – finally figured out seating was upstairs… har har, where else would it be? Then got a game plan. We booked a hotel room so we had a place to hang in between appointments. Once we got the game plan things started to calm down.
We jumped in a taxi, how NYish, and took O to FAO to check it out. Then we went to my set and I filmed a little job, go me! I met up with C and O back at the hotel and we walked over to O’s audition. 
I was skeptical of this place because it advertises as a “boutique agency.” I don’t really know what that means but I did a little bit of stalker activity online and touched base with complete strangers on Linkedin who are represented by them and they gave great reviews. Plus, a woman I used to work with has a friend who goes to her church who had to quit her job because her daughter excelled in modeling and they take the bus to NY all the time for auditions. True story. She fwd me the text from her church friend ironically Take 3 was listed in her top 3 recommendations. So I was getting super excited.
O had to memorize a small Skippy Peanut butter commercial and freaking nailed it. PLUS, since all we have been talking about is Skippy in our house for like the last week O actually started eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!!! Um, HELLO BONUS!
So anyway O like nails her audition and is just her absolute adorable perfect self as always, ( except for the times she’s having earth shattering emotional breakdowns but we all have those)
We all rolled out, hoping to hear from Take 3 in a week or so.