Chollywood
By tuck 24 Jan 2002
-About 8 weeks ago some people came to watch the team training.
<p>-After class they grabbed 3 of us and took our pictures.</p>
<p>-A week later I was called and asked to go to Beijing Film Productions.</p>
<p>-3 days later I was there, sitting at a mahogany table in front of an American film director and his writers and crew, interviewing for a role. Would have been nice if they told me <span class="caps">BEFORE</span> <span class="caps">HAND</span> why I was going there. But of course, that is not the Chinese way. Also, Im not sure what else they would have had me go there for, but at the time, going to interview to be in a movie just never crossed my mind for some reason.</p>
<p>-I learned quickly that they needed to cast a couple recent-addition-to-the-script roles.</p>
<p>-The director seemed like an ok guy. </p>
<p>-They had me read some lines. I did the best I could considering I didnt know it was a casting interview before I went. I wasnt nervous; my last job in America nerve-bombed me for life. But I was really unprepared. Ive never even been in a play.</p>
<p>-2 weeks later, after thinking I probably sucked, they called me back.</p>
<p>-4 days later I was back in the board room reading more lines, being filmed, and being told I have a really interesting look about [me].</p>
<p>-2 days later they called. A small script was dropped off for me.</p>
<p>-26 days later was today, my debut as a film actor. </p>
<p>-The movie is probably going to suck, but Im in it, and I speak in it, and I scowl in it, so therefore those who know me are obligated to watch it for the 5 minutes of me-ness. </p>
<p>-Its the sequel to a movie I have never seen called Warriors of Virtue (1997). <span class="caps">MGM</span> pictures. Soundtrack available. It was in theaters.</p>
<p>-The day is detailed in <span class="caps">TTJ</span> (thraxil tuck journal)</p>