June 22, 2000
This one was a crap shoot. I was reading for two days of work playing an Internet Venture Capitalist. There was a five-page scene to be prepared that honestly could have been performed by just about anybody in town. There was very little that could be done to it to make it come to life.
But that didn't stop me from trying.
Things were going along well and they were chuckling at my attempts to make the character and scene unique, until about halfway through I tried a quirky line reading on one of my seven lines and their faces turned to stone. There was some invisible line in the sand and I had crossed it. I hadn't done anything outrageous or inappropriate. I just held the last letter of a word too long, but in the context of the scene, I have to admit now, it actually makes no sense. So basically I confused them into not hiring me.
Or something. Or nothing. It was really one of those parts that could
have gone to anybody. As I go to bed tonight, we know it will not be
going to me. It starts Monday and they would have called by now to
book it. At least I'm back out auditioning, though. Keep 'em coming.