You know I was saying the
title of this entry to myself before I ever realized
the play on "There's Something About Mary". It's true
though. He's just grey enough to be special. And once
you get to know him? One face says it
all...
Tha brotha that tries too goddamn
hard. For reference, he can actually pull it off if he
just calms down...
But he never does, and always ends
up being the clown. You root for him though. Since he
is now going on auditions (story after the video) it
was time to make his acting reel. Talk about a labor
of love.
GODDDDDDDDDDDD how
I miss doin' the Egos. Those very simple dialogue
scenes? They feel so real to my brain. I know it
must come off arrogant as BALLS for me to say, but
those guys are NOT me. They are very real, very
different people and I get lost in the moments
hoping they'll continue onto something I don't
know yet. It's trippy. 'Cause the scenes are
soooooooooo mellow and not "campy". Just guys chillin'
and talking. Whew... anyway...
So Gary ended up getting the very
first audition at my new agency (Rogers Orion) and it
was for a national TGIFridays commercial. WOOT. It
called for a "Kevin Federline with cornrows" type,
and, well... hot damn. So again, I sign in as
Gary, they know me as Gary - there is no Adam Kontras.
Gary has his own casting accounts and everything.
However, when I downloaded the sides it said the
part was a short-bald dude. One of the lines is even
"Ooooh, he's bald." I was assured it was right and
when I got there? Only guy in the room dressed
like a wannabe gangsta. Guys in suits, bald guys... it
was pretty comical. Everyone kinda smiled at me and
I even said "Ever feel like you've walked into
the wrong audition?". Ends up the casting peeps were
looking for a wiiiiiiiiiiiiiide range of "mismatched"
guys for a pretty "girl-next-door" type to be paired
up with.
And I soooo got to kiss the
pretty girl. How fun is this? And incredibly RARE for
a first audition. They tend to push all that until
it's down to final callbacks, but I was not going
to complain. A real kiss to boot. The director
just said "totally up to you guys how far you want to
go, talk to each other and see what you're comfortable
with". She was cool, I was cool... and thank GOD
because any awkardness when you're paired up with an
acting partner? Hell. If there isn't instant
believeable comfort with each other? Both people look
bad. And that's even harder with a kiss. It's one of
those - one-shot, hope you both go the right ways on
cue and it looks natural. It really did work perfect
in one-take and I'll be honest? I believed her. Oh had
I not been dressed like a douche-bag? I'd have
talked to her afterwards. LOL. And yeah, I don't
care what actors say? If you're in a relationship
while doing an on-screen kiss or love scene? Oh it's
kinda like really making out. They all say the correct
"oh, there's a crew of people, lights, it's totally
unsexy..." whatever. I mean, it's part of the job and
any mate would understand that if they are with that
person... but it is intimate. Especially since I have
always been the actor-type that just IS the
person for the moments of the scene. I kinda lose
myself in the character and if I really know the
character? I don't think about body language or
speech patterns, etc... it just happens subconciously.
And with the Egos it's an absolute no-brainer. I'm
there instantly. So yeah, any future
girlfriends/wives? Sorry, it feels like I'm getting
away with something and it's kinda fun. This will
probably never come up again, but I just had to
throw that out there.
And it must've worked because
I got a callback and just came back from it
actually and it again went really well. The one
problem however? I cannot express just how different
the guys still auditioning are. There was a muscle
bound 50 year old guy, a guy who looked like the
star-wars kid, a mullet-wearin' bald guy... the most
drastically different types you can imagine.
I even joked that it felt like we were gonna be
on a reality show. Beauty and the Geeks or something.
And trying as much as possible to be unbiased here?
The character of Gary isn't exactly unnattractive. In
fact, you can see several pretty girls picking a
"bad-boy" type. In the end? That's probably gonna
kill my chances because the point of the "date" they
go on - is that they're horribly matched, but because
of the great atmosphere of Fridays, they get married
(inset personal Adam marriage joke here). So it's far
funnier to me, if I'm casting this, to pick the
craziest mismatch possible. So I'm not holding my
breath for this one, but I did have a ball and
make the people laugh in the audition and that's good.
And I saw no one else like me left so clearly -
I owned the "wannabe gangsta" look - just a
matter of the direction they go. I'll find out
Monday...
