November 5, 1997
Never have I been so HORRIBLY MISCAST!! Well, OK, it's not that big a deal. It's two lines in a beer commercial, but I was robbed, I tell you, robbed. I made a rookie mistake of assuming which character I would be reading for. My agent told me I was up for the "HERO," and the scene was between HERO and BUDDY. I looked it over, worked up some magical bits for HERO and got ready to cash my paycheck. Of course, my world was shattered when we walked in the door and the casting director non-chanlantly waved his hand and said, "Uh... let's do you as HERO, and you as BUDDY." And in that fateful moment, all the work I had done, the character I had created, the HERO that I had become was doomed to never see the light of day. There my HERO lay, stillborn on the floor of the casting office.
Oh, yeah, sure, I was fine as BUDDY. I may even have been a little charming, dammit. But I just wasn't ready for it. I should have been just as ready and eager for BUDDY as I was for HERO. Now, we'll never know what could have been.