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Actor Rejections

  • February 28, 2010 11:14 am

Good choice? Bad choice?

“Thank you.”

That’s how you know you’re being rejected at an acting audition.  Whether you’re performing a monologue or cold-reading a side or reading commercial copy, that quick ‘thank you, please move on with you life because I’m moving on with mine’ is the kiss of death.  Sometimes, it’s better to hear flat out silence after an audition because it means you made them stop and think.  Or in any case, stop.

1,001 Reasons I Love Movies: (#4) Asian Horror Films

  • October 26, 2009 10:13 pm

a_tale_of_two_sisters_movie_posterAnother entry in my month-long celebration of all things Halloween

I’ve written previously about my love for horror flicks. I grew up on them and my childhood is filled with many pleasant memories of sitting in front of the TV and watching everything from the old Universal monster movies (the classics—Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman) to things like Poltergeist which seriously fucked me up. But I have a special place in my heart for the ones from Asia.

It’s not necessarily because I’m Asian (though that may play a small part in it), but I think it has more to do with the fact that a lot of these genre works from Asia are truly bizarre and have a very distinct sensibility that I can only describe as…different.