The Network Test can often run quite long, but this one may have set the new record. We arrived at 3:45pm for a work session, which was good. It helped to run the scene one more time. We were also given a group-scene, which would be used, if necessary, to "mix-and-match" the four characters that were there testing. Yes, four characters testing this evening, which meant 13 men were gathered in the lobby of the executive offices on the Warner Brothers ranch. And 5 of those men were reading for the role of WOOD.
Anyway, we also ran the mix-and-match scene once just to get a feel for it. I could have used a few more feels, but the 5 o-clock hour was approaching and so were the tests.
The 13 scenes took most of the next hour and then we sat and waited to hear the verdict. That verdict was: Mix-and-Match Time. I was in the first group to go in for a mix-and-match session. That turned out to be fortuitous because no one else entered that room after we walked out. That appeared to mean one of two things. The good option would be that each of us was the number one person his role. The flip-side could be that they were going to choose nobody. We were their only shot at success and they're just going to scrap the whole thing based on our group reading.
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Update
So I DID get the role that day, as did two of the three other people in the room during the mix-and-match. The fourth of those roles has since been cast, but by none of the people there testing on Tuesday.
Shooting starts sometime in April. Let's hope the second show I do with the word GROW somehow in the title is the charm.