The Angry Actress

Oh what fun it is to be an actress, to get paid for living lots of different lives and to transform yourself and play for the rest of your life... Yes, in an ideal world. Read here about the reality! "What's my motivation" for travelling to far-off student film castings, waiting for ages on a draughty film extra bus, performing to 400 screaming school children or doing unpaid photo shoots in swimming pools? Shakespeare knows!

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Footballer's wife?

I went up for a footballer's girlfriend lookalike casting the other day.
LOL! I look nothing like her!
Planned to dress in a track suit first but from my "Heat"-addicted neighbours I soon found out that she seems to have smartened up recently.
So I wore something quite sweet but trendy, and the only other girl in the casting looked like Posh spice, so I thought I might have half a chance.
I'd also brought along a mag with her picture in it to prove my point, which the director ended up nicking off me, naughty!
So after being photographed from all angles and asked to walk towards the camera with "her attitude" I was sent on my way and never heard from them again, surprise surprise!

I also managed to get a copy of that FatAway test commercial- I am hardly in it 2 seconds and I still haven't received my money. We shot this in December and the girl who did the casting was now visibly pregnant. So much for getting paid on time. It's nearly April for goodness sakes!!!

I skipped my Audition Success class tonight. I felt tired and ill prepared, which is never a good start for any audition or class. I also can't move properly yet after a recent injury, so I gave it a miss. Also I am needed bright and early again tomorrow at the Ideal Home Show, that actor's voice's early tomb. oh joy!

I was planning to lose weight for an audition in April, but my chocolate addiction won't let me. Excuses excuses.... dear Jesus, give me a carreer!

Not been up for any theatre auditions recently, the money tends to be so bad it depresses me just looking at the ads.
I filled out a 3 page Bradford council application form the other day though (for a theatre production, but the application process is the same as for a housing officer-hours of fun with a totally anal form, great!), so who knows...

On a positive note, I shot a fashion spread for Cosmo the other day, my weight problem's not so bad you may think, but it was actually about how to dress right if you have an enormous arse or some other physical imperfection. There was one girl there who was a 6'1'' giant with no waist, I kid you not! Also a girl who had had 2 kids and used to be a size 8- she was still skinnier than me though, *bitch* ;)

Also my recent feature film is going to Cannes, I tried re-doing my online accreditation but as usual the French IT personnel must be on strike cos the bastard kept crashing on me.
Oh well at least I got myself on IMDB at last, I was surprised how much of my stuff was on there which I just had to add to my profile. Unfortunately I now hate the picture I paid $40 to upload, but hey that's life and it makes me look a bit more interesting than your run-of-the-mill pretty bimbo...

So, Cannes, here I come again, time to lick more champagne off more random footballers-turned-"actors"! ;)