Go All the Way!

IF YOU AREN'T WHAT THEY WANT, GIVE THEM WHAT YOU'VE GOT!

This is a scene from a feature film (“All the Way”) I heard about from a Director of Photography (DOP) friend of mine. He said the Director still needed a couple of females about my age to play some interesting roles. One I didn't like, but the other, although I wasn't Hungarian (which they wanted), I just loved and wanted to play badly. I was offered an opportunity to call the Director for an audition. I asked him to just give me a chance to show him what I could do with the character. He rather reluctantly agreed.

I prepared myself with the lines in the script, a great, strong New York (Queens) accent with the big hair and fake, red fingernails and buxom, motherly outfit and arrived for my audition and did my job. Well, they laughed their heads off and loved me and I got the job on the spot and they even worked the shooting schedule around my availability!

So JUST GO FOR IT! What did I have to lose anyway? Even if I hadn't gotten the job, I had a ball playing that character I created even if it was just for a few minutes with an audience of two!