So, I am not at liberty to say what it is, but I booked a BIG commercial for a BIG company. Huzzah!!! I can tell you a few things without breaking my confidentiality agreement…<\/p>\n
This is by far the largest scale commercial shoot I have ever been on. \u00a0100 crew members, plus about 60 additional people including agency, client talent and extras. \u00a0There was an enormous green screen and a wind machine! \u00a0I felt like Beyonce<\/a>.<\/p>\n I had my own room in a trailer, albeit next door to a David Hasselhoff<\/a> look alike who spoke very loudly on his phone for most of the night. \u00a0But I still get excited seeing\u00a0my name on the door of a trailer (even when it’s just sloppily scribed with\u00a0magic marker and taped up there by a PA)!<\/p>\n When I auditioned for this spot, I went in for a\u00a0“hipster<\/a> girl” type description. \u00a0Despite my spot-on\u00a0efforts to look quirky, complete with buttoned-all-the-way-up chambray, jean shorts over pantyhose, plus knee high socks and,\u00a0the icing on the cake, my grandmother’s arrowhead necklace over\u00a0the shirt collar; I was still baffled that I booked this role. \u00a0Until I arrived on set and realized that, though in the “hipster\/city folks” category, I was still, as per usual,\u00a0playing a mom. (Cue sad trombone: wah wah.) \u00a0I played mother to\u00a0a 13-year-old boy this time, though I keep telling myself that he must look really young for his age. \u00a0Was it inappropriate that I joked with him about my probable\u00a0backstory — getting knocked up as a teenager and the\u00a0deadbeat dad leaving me\u00a0because I decided not to abort him? Okay, I didn’t actually say anything about abortion (though it’s of course implied with any teenage pregnancy<\/a>, I hope), and besides,\u00a0that’s what his parents get for letting him be an actor.<\/p>\n There was, however, one\u00a0notable conversation, not involving food as most commercial set actor conversations do, that one of the talent brought up: do you always know when you book the job? \u00a0This\u00a0guy who asked was saying that YES, 100% of the time, he knew that he booked it when he gets the call. \u00a0I said that probably about 80% of the time I knew, but that there were times when I left the audition thinking, “Nope, that’s not mine,” and then booked it. \u00a0I couldn’t think of ANY times when I said “I booked that” and then didn’t. \u00a0However, the 100% guy said that many times he left saying “I booked that” and didn’t. \u00a0With 100% guy, I gathered that he pretty much just always thinks he booked it, which clearly skews his 100%. \u00a0So, the important piece I took from this was, I need more of\u00a0this guy’s mentality. \u00a0Even if my version is a fake it ’til you make it, I will be presenting,\u00a0“I’m booking this sh*t right now” in the audition room. \u00a0No doi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, I am not at liberty to say what it is, but I booked a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keriblunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keriblunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keriblunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keriblunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keriblunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keriblunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keriblunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keriblunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keriblunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}