(A)Typical Day

Most of my day was spent waiting, which means it was a shoot day. A bit scattered, but it happens. I chose not to complain, but to make the best of it. I worked on lines and got to know other members of the cast.

One of my castmates is a very experienced drag queen. I ended up feeling his boobs (36DDD). Surprisingly natural from the front and from below, but a little too stiff from above. Take that sentence how you want. After that, he did my make-up. I was to look 15 years older. I ended up looking very draggy in life, but on camera it worked perfectly. Todays lesson: Trust Queens. Apparently another of my cast members has his own stripping company (as in a crew of people who he hires out to strip for parties, himself included). Yet another member of the cast owns/manages a circus. This is a very eclectic crew, and I think it's fair to say that I may be the most normal of the group, and I pick up dead bodies.

Long story short, I learned a lot today. Including what it's like to do all green screen acting. It's odd to have so many people who are characters in a small space, but be a character talking to walls instead of actual castmates. Life happens.

Doing lines is fun

If you ever think life is too boring and want a real challenge, or if you find life difficult and want more challenges so you have to organize all of your life by the minute, then just get cast in an independently produced film based on an obscure Shakespeare play that uses the original script. You'll quickly discover that memorizing Shakespeare is not like memorizing other lines. It's harder. Especially if you have some long scenes.

So challenge yourself. It helps prevent Alzheimer's disease. Or dementia. Something like that.