August 15, 2000
I was doing pretty well today. I had the scenes pretty well down, they weren't too long. They were a little tricky in terms of deciding where this Greg Hudson is coming from. I made some choices that I felt were working and went pretty well for me.
Except...
As I was hitting the end of my first scene, I had a little bit of a monologue and I was getting agitated and upset. And as the last couple of lines came out of my mouth, all I could think to myself was, "Who is that bad actor reading those lines?" We finished that scene and every impulse I had was to put a disappointed/stick-bomb look on my face and let them know that I thought it was as weak as they did. But I made no such face. We went on to scene two, which went well throughout. And if it weren't for two things, I could get this job. One thing was, of course, sucking as I wrapped up scene one. The other thing, and this is the unfortunate part, was that they taped the audition today for other producers. My moment couldn't disappear in the corner of their minds because the rest of my audition was so strong. It was recorded forever, to be played as many times as modern video technology allows. No one would just forget it. They had tangible proof of my weak closing.
Where are those sitcoms!!??