November 1, 2000
This turned out to be a pretty tricky audition. The scenes called for
interaction with a number of people. That's always a challenge
because you inevitably only read with one person, so you have
to get creative. The scene also required dealing with a computer,
both programming it and talking to it as if it's all around you. In
the meantime, I felt the scenes were trying to accomplish certain
goals, but it wasn't always there in the writing, especially when
three different people and a computer are all being read by
the same person. What I felt ended up happening was me trying to
convey these different ideas to the producers while I did the scene
and having it come out as mugging and over-acting. Like I said, it
was tricky.