March 21, 2003
"You may think that's true, but I--"
That's the line I screwed up two days ago. "You may think that's true, but I--"
Instead of saying that, I said something like, "That may be true to you, but I--" You can see that the meaning is the same, but the words come out in completely different places. But maybe it's not as forceful, or at least not when you're fumbling to make the words spilling out of your mouth make sense.
But no matter, no one would ever hear the mistake I made. A problem with the camera caused my audition to be recorded without sound yesterday. The tape was unusable, but they really liked me for the part, so they wanted me to come back in this morning and do it one more time, just a quick in-and-out, no waiting, just do exactly what I did before. Well, not exactly.
Here was my shot at redemption. I could turn a good audition into a great audition. All I would have to do is say the lines correctly. I did end up waiting since I got there so early, but I took the time to drill the line into my head...
"You may think that's true, but I--"
"You may think that's true, but I--"
"You may think that's true, but I--"
"You may think that's true, but I--"
At last they were ready for me. They apologized thoroughly for the mistake, but all would be fine. I would correct my mistake and be off to work on Aaron Spelling's next nighttime soap masterpiece.
Now I'm not saying this will keep me from getting the job, but when we got to that line, and I screwed up the order of the words in exactly the same way I did the first time, I was nothing but shocked. Who am I? How small is my brain that I can't put a word-order in there?
Still, if they liked me so much before, they'll still like me so much
again, right?