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[modpixie]

Hi!

As many of you may know, I am currently working on a feature film, The Ballad of Burd Janet. The film draws its inspiration from the Scottish ballad Tam Lin and the decadent 1920s. A devout young "maid-of-all-work", Janet Mackinzie (played by Antonia Pugliese), must rescue her betrothed (Ian Cardoni) from his aunt, the unscrupulous spirit

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[jenwrites]

Janet Mackinzie (played by Antonia Pugliese)

Hang on, I'm playing Antonia Pugliese's mother? Little Antonia? I remember when her mother was pregnant with her. Hell, I remember when her father started dating her mother!

God, I'm old.

[modpixie]

yes, you're playing antonia's mom. i hope that's okay...? sounds like it! she's a great kid and i've really enjoyed working with her.

(go here for some cute piccys of her.)

[jenwrites]

Hey, at least I'm actually old enough to be her mom! That's a change from most modern film-making. But so you know, at least as of last year, I'm about a foot taller than her. Maybe she's grown since Patri reintroduced me to her at Boskone. Hopefully, you don't need us to stand right next to each other in any of the flashbacks. Or maybe you should cast a circus midget as her dad ;)

[modpixie]

well, in the seance you're in different shots. there's no standing-directly-next-to-each-other shot in the flashback...but she's also playing a twelve-year-old in that scene, so it can work. we can make it work. :)

[jenwrites]

At first, I thought, "12? Well, that won't work." Then I remembered that most 12-year-old girls aren't 5'9" like I was. Shortly before I turned 13, I started being mistaken for a college student. I kept being mistaken for a college student until I was about 28. It was a lovely Dorian Gray period of my life, that now, sadly, has passed.