Monthly Archive for December, 2008

Dear Blog,

So uhhh… back from the first day of rehearsal. Meet­ing every­one, hav­ing a “read through” of a new, revised script and what-not. Kinda cool. Kinda fun. Kinda nice.

Out­side was pour­ing with rain. I could almost swim in the street. There was enough water any­way to the­o­ret­i­cally drown given that appar­ently, you only need 2cm of water to drown; thus why a friend-of-mine’s grand­mother has a fit every time she sees her walk near a puddle.

“No Tar­lina!! No!! You will drown!! Stay away from that lit­tle pud­dle!! You want to what???! Swim at the beach??! Have you gone men­tal!!!! My grand­daugh­ter. Oh my dear grand­daugh­ter. Lord what have I done to deserve this?”

We did a few scene run throughs where I die and the female lead screams out, whilst try­ing to pro­tect me from the evil clutches of the evil guy, repet­i­tively, “Nooooo. Noooooo! Nooooooo!! NOOOOOOOO!!” It was rather hilar­i­ous to be hon­est, mostly because I couldn’t remem­ber my lines, and was try­ing to do my best imper­son­ation of the girl from The Exor­cist whilst we were accom­pa­nied in the back­ground by some errant tunes of upbeat folk music. I had to sti­fle laugh­ter while pre­tend­ing I was dying… say what?

So check it out. Am I like… nay actor or what! At least my goal of hav­ing a spec­tac­u­lar onscreen death will be ful­filled at long last… unless you count my pre­vi­ous adven­tures as Sars Boy.