Monthly Archive for September, 2008

So I went to an audi­tion the other day for a zom­bie com­edy type film called “Racist” writ­ten and soon-to-be directed by Andrew Dunstan.

I was so sure that I wasn’t going to be doing it as I could have sworn that God had sent me mul­ti­ple signs that I would not be doing this.

Firstly I had missed the first audi­tion date as I was trav­el­ing despite my numer­ous email exchanges with Andrew. Sec­ondly I had left my record­ing ses­sion an hour early to make it to the audi­tion on time and on my way, the train cross­ing bar­rier stopped work­ing sud­denly and traf­fic became con­gested. It took me half an hour to escape.

Thirdly after escap­ing from the traf­fic I changed into a clearer road where I find, to my dis­be­lief, road­works that have expanded across the entire six-lane road includ­ing two lanes for the pub­lic tram sys­tem. Unbelievable!

I was going to be late to the audi­tion; there was no doubt about it. I was sorely tempted to just go home. By some mir­a­cle I even­tu­ally arrive at the audi­tion… 15 min­utes late.

So in the audi­tion I’m asked to impro­vise a scene where I’m a lazy bum who doesn’t want to help his friend move a couch. I ended up going Haydn-trained-me-today-so-I-fainted and laid face down on the ground for the entire sce­nario. The strange thing is, I got a part.

So I guess the next time you see me on film will be as a deranged zom­bie; woo!