Looks like I’m acting up
I am sure I will run out of awful puns soon.
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from someone I didn’t know, asking me to audition for a film I’ve never heard of. I went, of course. (Prepared to storm out if they asked me to take off any clothes.)
I go to the audition, a little wary, not sure what to expect, but have a lot of fun. I leave thinking I actually have a shot at being in a movie. And lo-and-behold, I get an email a couple weeks later, asking me in for a second audition! Let me tell you about this movie:
The premise: Ron, the son of shoe farmers (they grow plants that grow shoes…) is tired of his lowly farming life. He wants to be rich and famous. His family’s crops aren’t what they used to be. The shoes used to grow sparkly and beautiful, but now they’re just ole’ brown boots. Ron is tired of it. So, his family allows him one week to find his fortune, and he hops on a bus to New Citysville. There, he meets Lupita, an aspiring fashion designer who immediately falls in love with Ron, though Ron shows very little sign of recipricating. Ron finds a poster for a…wait for it…Fetish Competition. Ron and Lupita get together four ‘co-workers’ to help them win this competition. And their biggest competition in the competition? A character named…Bitch. Bitch Big Stuff.
And not only is the plot completely bizarre, but there is music. It is a full length musical comedy. The directors and producers are aiming to make it the next cult classic, and who knows. Maybe it will be. It is definitely in the same boat as Rocky Horror and any John Waters movie- strange, campy, and oddly cast.
I say oddly cast because…they cast me. I play Lupita, the quirky, love sick fashion designer. I help Ron in his struggle to get rich. It is going to be a blast. We start filming in September, and I anticipate that I will blog about this quite often. This will be my first real experience working on a film, so- wow!
Back to work.