All We Are Saying Is, "Give Jesus Pants"
Today, I auditioned for a role in the movie “Sofia for Now”: a feature length film being made by two Carnegie Mellon students.
It all started on Friday, when I saw a flyer on the wall of the cafeteria advertising auditions. I immediately sent out an email saying I was interested. I got a response pretty quickly with character descriptions and the location of the audition, but they said they’d email me with the time.
Come today, the last day of auditions, I still hadn’t heard from them. So I just trekked over to CMU and hoped for the best. When I got there, I explained to them the situation, but they just told me to sit outside.
While I was waiting, a heavily made up woman in her 30’s, all decked out in jewelry and furs, sat down next to me. In a heavy Russian accent, she told me that she had the next appointment. Right before it was her turn, though, she ran off because of some kind of emergency (the nature of which wasn’t apparent to me). So, when the director poked his head out and called for her, she was nowhere to be found.
The director decided he’d take me while waiting for the Russian woman. In the first scene I read, I played Richard, a “nerdy, easily seduced” photo developer. It was a short scene that I had already memorized, so that went pretty quickly and smoothly. The director then had me read another scene in which I played Russell, the main character’s perverted step-brother. Unfortunately, the director cut me off before the direction “Russell unzips his pants.” Fortunately, he said afterwards, “That was pretty solid.”
Then we just talked for a while about filmmaking and whatnot. I said that I would be happy to be a production assistant if I didn’t get a role, and he seemed to like that idea. Finally he said, he’d get back to me in about two weeks, and thanked me for coming by. As I was exiting the room, I saw the Russian woman come running back, just in time to get her audition in. So it was a happy ending for everyone.
It all started on Friday, when I saw a flyer on the wall of the cafeteria advertising auditions. I immediately sent out an email saying I was interested. I got a response pretty quickly with character descriptions and the location of the audition, but they said they’d email me with the time.
Come today, the last day of auditions, I still hadn’t heard from them. So I just trekked over to CMU and hoped for the best. When I got there, I explained to them the situation, but they just told me to sit outside.
While I was waiting, a heavily made up woman in her 30’s, all decked out in jewelry and furs, sat down next to me. In a heavy Russian accent, she told me that she had the next appointment. Right before it was her turn, though, she ran off because of some kind of emergency (the nature of which wasn’t apparent to me). So, when the director poked his head out and called for her, she was nowhere to be found.
The director decided he’d take me while waiting for the Russian woman. In the first scene I read, I played Richard, a “nerdy, easily seduced” photo developer. It was a short scene that I had already memorized, so that went pretty quickly and smoothly. The director then had me read another scene in which I played Russell, the main character’s perverted step-brother. Unfortunately, the director cut me off before the direction “Russell unzips his pants.” Fortunately, he said afterwards, “That was pretty solid.”
Then we just talked for a while about filmmaking and whatnot. I said that I would be happy to be a production assistant if I didn’t get a role, and he seemed to like that idea. Finally he said, he’d get back to me in about two weeks, and thanked me for coming by. As I was exiting the room, I saw the Russian woman come running back, just in time to get her audition in. So it was a happy ending for everyone.