I had an audition this morning for one of my favorite TV shows. I wish I could tell you the name of the show but due to the circumstance, I just can’t! All I’m gonna say is that it’s a hit drama and it’s pretty spooky!
I went in very prepared and extremely excited. In the waiting room there was the usual gaggle of pretty girls all sizing each other up. It can be pretty tense in these rooms. I have now been doing this for so long that the energy in the waiting room no longer throws me. I try to stay focused on why I’m there, to read for the casting director.
This audition was taking forever and it seemed as though they had overbooked.There were about 15 girls a head of me and 15 behind me. This is very rare for a TV audition. Each girl was in and out pretty quickly. They were going so fast that it almost seemed like they weren’t having them even finish the scene. Finally the casting assistant calls my name! Yes! I had been there for well over an hour.
The casting director is this sweet older lady. I do my audition while she tapes me. When I finished, she told me I did a great job but that she didn’t like my hair. She asked me if I could put it back somehow but I didn’t have anything with me! Oh no! So she starts searching her desk for a bobbie pin. She doesn’t find one but she does find a paper clip! Not only did she put a paper clip in my hair but she started redoing my hair!!! LOL! At this point, there are so many things going through my head. I’m thinking… wow this lady must really love me to go through all of this trouble when there are so many people waiting!! I’m starting to feel bad for the girls outside. I’m wondering what my hair must look like now. So she tapes me doing the scene again, gives me a couple of notes and tapes me doing the scene AGAIN!!! She then stops the tape and tells me her eye is bothering her. She excuses herself to go to the restroom to check her eye while I remain in the room. The girls outside are still waiting. When she comes back in, she is still having the eye problem and cant figure out whether it’s her glasses or her eye. So I try to help her figure it out. I’m wearing her glasses, going under different lights to see if I can find the source. Then all of a sudden she starts crying!!! Yeah she starts CRYING!! She tells me that she doesn’t know if this is what she wants to be doing anymore! I am consoling her trying to make her feel better. I am a Libra so I just love to make people feel better. Oh and yeah the girls are still outside waiting!!! I do my best to pick up her sprits and she thanks me over and over. Through her tears, she then says “by the way, I really don’t think you are going to get a callback. Your just not right for the part.” Oh boy! What a trip! Olivia
That’s one of the best audition stories I’ve heard in awhile. At least she’s bound to remember you for other stuff.