3.4.05-- My niche as an actor.

Hey! I booked a commercial today. It's a commercial that plays in the UK and maybe on the internet. I hope it plays. It's for like a computer service something or other called "Three"-- or maybe that's the name of the spot.

Last year I was the Oscar Mayer girl. This year I'm the Japanese milkmaid with gigantic hands who escapes the farm to play basketball.

For reals! That's what I am playing. That's what it said on the sides. A Japanese milkmaid with gigantic hands who loves basketball. I thought I messed up my callback too. I was supposed to be milking a cow and looking around all nervous as I prepared to run for the hills. I ain't never milked a cow before. So I had to use my imagination. I left the audition, went home, and in my apartment kept kicking myself for screwing up, and re-doing the callback the way it should have been done. It was quite embarassing when my roommate caught me milking the air and looking around scared.

In my first audition I was supposed to be all sad as I handed my basketball off to my friend. I was trying to do the silly pouty Japanese girl thing in the spot. I guess all those years of imitating the girls at the Nijiya Market have paid off.

So happy that I'm marketable in such a strange niche. Too bad I still can't get my SAG health insurance even if this spot runs to its fullest. Ah well, there will be some other commercial for something freakishly weird that I'll have to book this year.

I start teaching my workshop tomorrow. I'm jazzed.

Love,

Kristina