Have you ever felt like an arse?

So I had a second callback the other week for a Lifetime movie that is being filmed in the Valley. I belong with a local agency and mostly do print or commercial work (not fashion, TOO SHORT!). I always hate going on movie auditions because I SUCK at acting. Heck, I can't even act happy when something is bothering me! This movie has an impressive lead actress from a popular ABC series, so to be part of it would have been awesome. Parts of the scene were in Asia, so when they are looking for a type it does make it a little easier.


So I go on the first audition and slate my name and deliver the line. Not bad. Now the casting director says, "okay do it again but more flirty". Easy enough. I did it again, feeling good about it, and I leave. So I get a call a few days later and they want to see me again for a callback. So I am thinking, just do what you did the first time and you will be fine Tina. Now callbacks involve way more people than the initial audtion. I walk into the room with the casting director, an assistant casting person, the director of the movie, his assistant, along with some random people and a video camera. I have anxiety sometimes so this just really sucks!! So I slate again, deliver the line. Now the director looks at me and says "Do you want to be in this movie?". Um, well yeah? "Can you do it with an asian accent?" ...............Huh? Are you for real? I was born in Alabama! I don't know how to do this! So I tried to chanel my inner mother. My sisters make fun of me because they say I talk to my mom with an accent thinking it will help my mom understand me better. But all I could hear and chanel was her yelling at me and what she would say, in Vietnamese. I could probably say "clean your room" or something. However they wanted me to flirt with a guy on an airplane! Needless to say I botched that audition. I just couldn't do it. I have no idea what I said or how I said it. I think it was more of a nasally English accent or something. Ugggh, I cringe just thinking about it! So embarassing! I just wanted to crawl under a rock, just bang my head on the wall, or let out a big Homer Simpson "d'oh".


It reminds me of how I felt the first time I did a family shoot with a family I didn't know. I remember saying "okay you guys ready? Say cheeeeeeese!" ........Really Tina?....... People pay you for this? ......Why don't you just say Macaroni while you're at it? .......Sigh. Sometimes I feel like this.........