It’s nothing like The Italian Job. It involves neither Mini Coopers now Charleze Theron. It also doesn’t pay. Such are student films. But, I like the concept, and I think it’ll be a good piece to get on my reel. I’m not sure exactly how long the movie is supposed to be. The script is seven pages at the moment, but the director said that he is okay with some improvisation during the shooting. So, the final script may wind up being effectively padded by some unscripted banter. I’m guessing something like ten minutes, but I haven’t even time myself reading the script.
The audition day was a sort of comedy of errors. For one thing, it randomly snowed. The evening before was quite nice. Today, the day after, all the snow has melted. But, yesderday it was snowing like heck the entire day. The McDonald’s I stopped at to get something to eat during the drive down to Denver in the snow ran out of Chicken McNuggets. I ordered them, paid at the first window, and pulled up to the second window, and then was told they were out. At Kinko’s, their online printing system refused to believe that a JPG could be printed without all sorts of special instructions, and then never made it through to the people. That whole thing was incredibly annoying. Then, when I finally made it to the audition, the gal running reception was shown where the water bottles were, and kindly offerred me one. The minor oversight in her preparation was that nobody told her where the Men’s room was. This is sort of a mean trick. Best of all, the Men’s room I eventually found was apparently closed for cleaning.
The audition itself went well enough. I did a monologue adapted from Extracts from Adam’s Diary by Mark Twain. It was about the creation of Eve. Since it had biblical and relations between the sexes themes, it seemed appropriate for this particular audition. While I was rehearsing it in the wee hours of the morning before the audition, I was reading it to myself in various voices in order to improve my ability to remember it. One of the voices that I read it in was vaguely Woody-Allen-esque. It wasn’t the best Woody Allen impression in the world, but it was apparently recogniseable. Anyhow, I found that voice more amusing than the others that I had used, so it is the one that I went with during the audition.
The film itself is a short odd-couple buddy comedy about two college room mates who respond to a sex for hire ad and travel to Iowa in order to attempt to impregnate Amish women. Based on a true story. I have got the part of Jon, who is the sort of lead / straight-laced buddy.