And there I was… Last Friday, 4:15pm at a sports commercial audition in Santa Monica, California out by the Pacific Ocean when… I got a call back at Paramount Studios for an earlier 11am audition for a co-starring role of a drug counselor on NCIS: LA! I was wearing grey Nike cross training shoes, a T-shirt and jogging pants. According to the callback email, I was supposed to be auditioning for producers on tape at 5:45pm. At 5pm, I raced out of the sports audition in Santa Monica and headed straight for the 405 Freeway! PACKED! So I booked it Santa Monica Blvd.! I checked my GPS…Spotted Red and Yellow! Arhhhhh! I drove as fast as I could. I called my agent and told him I would be late, but there by 6pm. At 6pm my agent called. He said “Where are you!!??” I told him I was parking. I was five minutes from Paramount Studios on Melrose!!!!. Sweating bullets. (Never multitask while changing clothes) After parking illegally I got into my ‘counselor’ clothes for the callback and ran my butt of through security and to the callback building! I was beyooooooond exhausted! Out of breath, up the elevator to the floor and there she was. The casting assistant that I had just seen at 11am. She said “They’re waiting for you.” They? I thought. Ohhhh no!!! My heart was jumping and thumping out of my chest! She gave me 2 minutes to compose myself and walked in an office at 6:14pm. (instead of 5:45pm) It was supposed to be an on tape audition for producers!!!!!!! They lied. I walked into a room full of people that I had never seen in my life, and they were all waiting for me. The NCIS:LA Writer. The Director. The Casting Director. The Producers. The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker…everyone was packed in this tiny office for a last decision on a counselor. No pressure. And before I could apologize for being late and having them wait. The room erupted in laughter. I wondered why as I nervously smiled... Then I looked down and understood why. While driving down Santa Monica, I managed to get the T-shirt off and put on my button up shirt with a sweater vest on. I couldn’t get into my slacks, so the drawstring jogging pants had to do. Then I looked further down. OH NOOOOO! One Tan loafer, and one Grey Nike gym shoe. Long story short. I composed myself, auditioned and after beating out approx. 20 actors, tomorrow at 1:30pm…. I get to meet LL COOL J. p.s. The callback for the Santa Monica audition is tomorrow at 12pm. #dammit
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 03:03:23 +0000
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