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9:35 AM - SAT 3.16.24
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Firing On All Cylinders

(Getting off to a relatively early start, but I'd still like to wake up and start doing this - or drawing, or something of the like - rather than spending my first waking hour fucking around on the Internet. But anyway...)

Had the fitting for my commercial shoot on Thursday.

It could have been a little shorter - there's always some time when they're done with you, but nobody tells you for a while (Because they become focused on the next people who've come in) - but it was fine. You're getting paid for your time, after all. And the attitude is typically upbeat at these things, everyone being happy they got the job and wanting to "put their best foot forward" and all that.

As is usually the case, I brought in a bunch of stuff, none of which was used (though they had pulled a shirt very similar to one of mine, which was commented on).

My partner in the spot, Emily, is the person I auditioned with, which I thought was fun (It's nice when you think you "popped" with another actor at the callback, and that feeling is borne out by both of you getting the gig).

We're shooting on Monday - 7:00 am call in Canoga Park - then I guess there'll be a night shoot before the week is out (Since the business we did at the callback is supposed to be happening "in the store", I'm curious what the night shoot is about. But whatever we're doing, that's fine with me, since it means getting paid for another day).

Considering my concerns about the "physicality" of the spot, I was delighted to discover that our business is not the whole spot, but just a piece of it.

To my way of thinking, that makes it less likely that the two of us will be run ragged doing our bit, since we're not the only thing that has to get done (When I was younger and doing community theater, I took note of older actors who no longer wanted large parts, because of the stamina required, because they worried about forgetting lines, etc. While I wouldn't say I'm quite "there" yet, I can see "there" from where I'm standing).

As I said when having lunch with Jane yesterday - after we spent some time walking around Hollywood Forever cemetery - it's really nice having this gig "in my back pocket", because it means I can just enjoy my free time, without the stress of wanting/needing a job.

As aware as I am of that pressure, I don't think I always understand just how much that pressure can "drag me down" emotionally, making everything I do that doesn't generate income seem like it "doesn't matter" somehow.

I don't like that.

But anyway...

Other than being sick for a couple days, the last week or so has been quite lovely - I had my GenSpace time, I got to hang out with Jane, and I had the commercial "in the wings".

It was a rare space where I got to feel like "things were firing on all cylinders".

Sadly, Jane was only here for a week - she left yesterday afternoon - but, happily, she won't be away too long, because she'll be back next month for the Pasadena Film Festival, possibly "the last hurrah" for Acting Like Nothing Is Wrong on the film festival circuit (Word is that this is a particularly good film festival - and I'm enthused about it being relatively close to home - so I'm expecting fun to be had).

So, long story short, it's been a good time to be me lately.

(Till next time...)


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