Had a great audition in S.F. yesterday, but I won't think it was truly great unless I get cast. The role - to be the distraught mother of a very naughty young woman who ends up in prison. I did my research, worked on my 80s wardrobe, and then did an improv scene that left me feeling raw and emotional. When the casting agent said it was over, I was so into my character, I almost drove home with her!
That's part of the enormous power of improv...since you are writing your own lines as you go, you become a lot more attached to your character than you would if you had been merely reading lines.
For 15 days now I have been home with a painful, nasty ailment, so it's been hard to rise to all occasions, and I have had to forgo a lot of auditions, even had to cancel a shoot. This feels like an early taste of what it will be like to be an older actress. So, being a visualizer and an optimist, I see this older actress having the wherewithal to be driven to auditions, or auditioning via something like those interactive video screens. There's a new audition app for smartphones coming our way, BTW. More on that another day.
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