Langford is in Kazakhstan. I am alone. I would have liked to go to Kazakhstan too but I am still bound to US soil while I wait for my greencard to come through. He is having an adventure and meeting lots of famous people at a film festival where he is a screenwriting finalist. I hope he wins the whole competition! Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I am still pursuing my dream of once again being a working actor. There have been a couple of promising events in the last week that may lead me closer to my goal. My Australian agent has been on fire and has helped organised two great opportunities for me. Last week I spent two days being a reader in the screentest for two male actors contending for the lead role in an Australian feature film. I had a lot of fun as we got to workshop and play with the material and be directed! I'm reminding myself of the dinosaur character in the new TOY STORY movie who keeps saying "Will we get played with??? Oh please play with me!" Actors love to be directed. I spent 2 hours workshopping with each actor. They were both so different and made such different choices each time. I loved seeing the scene shift and flow into different areas. I hope the second guy gets the role because he is slightly older and therefore there is more chance that I would have a shot at the female roles in the script. He is more like a man whereas the other guy is just trying to become one. I got to spend a lot of time chatting to the director, writer and producer and hopefully they will think of me later in the casting process. That was Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday I spent the day operating camera for my casting director friends casting session. The main thing I realised from watching all the actresses audition was that they were all pretty good and only one or two of them were really excellent. In my terribly paranoid actor's mind I start thinking that I have done an embarrassing audition and I know that other actor's feel the same, but I see that mostly that is not the case. Only very rarely does an actor really embarrass themselves.
On Friday I had a great meeting with the director and producer of a film set to be done in Australia and written by a friend of mine. The director is a great guy and really funny. We talked about the script and character and now I am doing a screentest tomorrow. There is still a lot of work to be done. There are 11 pages of script to tackle for the screentest and I hope to be able to rehearse with an actor today. It is a wonderful role in a romantic comedy. I ask the universe and the magic of acting to infuse me with light and humour so that I deliver an excellent reading tomorrow! This is a great opportunity for me.
I wish I could talk to Langford. Just calling him yesterday was a huge debacle. The woman at the front desk didn't really speak English and couldn't understand what I was saying. I kept repeating the room number and she just said. "He not there. You call later." Then she hung up on me! I was determined, so of course I called again. Her new response. "The phone in his room not working! You understand! You call another time." I told her that Langford was in the room because he was texting me at that very moment. I don't think she understood but finally I got speak to Langford! He was having a funny time so far, having been invited on an excursion to Kazakhstan's version of 'Chenobyl'. "It's very dangerous and nuclear waste, our version of Chernobyl- would you like to go?" Langford politely declined.
It has stopped raining now so I will go for a little walk. As only proper people do.
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