Raindrops keep falling on my head
When it rains it... well, it rains a lot. It was just a couple of weeks ago that Hollywood seemed to be in a drought - at least for me. I hadn't gone out on more than one or two auditions in two months and career movement just seemed nil. A lot of my friends were going through the same thing, although there were others who had just booked pilots, or movies, or commercials. So it wasn't an industry-wide thing, but I was definitely feeling it. Although concerned, I wasn't despairing as it gave me more time to work on a comic book my buddy John Keating and I have been working on, 60 Minute Broadway. I also had other things in the pipeline, like some freelance web design, logo design, illustration and other random things that seem to always take up my time. Well, in the past two weeks, things have changed.
I've been on two callbacks for commercials and a callback for a table-reading for a feature film. I went on this awesome audition for Volvo yesterday that completely fit my type and that I had a great audition for. And finally, I got a callback yesterday for a small part in ABC's big new sci-fi show for the fall season, Invasion. Went to the Warner Bros.' lot in Burbank and met with the producers, (Michael Berns and Thomas Schlamme, I think) and had a decent read, although leaving there, I felt I could have made better choices. Whatever though, I felt the same way with the Wendy's audition a few months back and that worked out okay. And best of all, today my agent called with the good news that I've been put on avail for Invasion. Woo-hoo!! *ahem* Actually, I can't get too excited until I'm actually on-set as sometimes these things just don't pan out, but needless to say, I'm feeling a weensy bit giddy right now.So now John Keating and I are going off to San Diego for their huge Comic Convention to pitch 60 next week so I'll be burning the midnight oil drawing all weekend in preparation for that, I'll hopefully be hearing back on that Volvo commercial and I'll even-more-hopefully be hearing back from the Invasion people in about a week or so. Oh yeah, and a bunch of us in the Dee Wallace Stone Acting Studio are pooling together to send out postcards, headshots and goodies to casting directors over the next few weeks, so hopefully good things will come of that, too. And I'm totally aware of the fact that this is all perception, and next week or the week after, things might start to dry up again and fear of the drought may return, but for now, the rain feels damn good.
6 Comments:
Congratulations man! That's so awesome! I believe in you! (BTW, I don't believe in droughts, only umbrellas)
thanks, m. i need all the belief you can spare.
I'm already seeing it happen! You've been good to the universe, I think it's ready to give back.
YEEHAW!
Dude I am your biggest fan!! Congrats!!
And we are gonna kick so much ass at Comic Con.
Thanks for all the support! You guys rock!!!
...and yes, there shall be much ass-kicking at the Con.
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