Actor Audition Story: "Quick! Can you do an Indian accent"?

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I got a text from a friend at 3pm asking if I could do an indian accent to be a deli owner.

Sure I can. I've been asked to do that before, and frankly, the guys at my local Subway were SURE I was bengali, and have taught me a few phrases. Good enough.

Apparently, my friend is doing a short film and the actors of indian decent that they saw weren't really able to do the scene to the director's liking, so they were kinda desperate, and they were about to cut the scene.

"Let me try my friend Bones" she said.

I got the text. I was there 1/2 hour later.

I looked at the scene for 15 minutes, they auditioned me, and they asked me to do the part in a few days. The entire process took about 45 minutes.

I started to think about what that meant as an actor.
It meant that they were happier to go with a guy who looked "kinda" indian who could do the scene rather than cutting  the scene entirely.
It meant that unless my friend KNEW WHO I WAS, they wouldn't have seen me,

It made me think about how often I am upset at Hollywood for not using Latino actors, or whatever, but maybe sometimes the few that they do see just aren't doing what the director wants, so they find someone else.

Who Knows?

The point is, I got the job!

Auditioning with Laura Valpey Rodriguez, too exciting to be quirky!

Auditioning with Laura Valpey Rodriguez, too exciting to be quirky!

Today I auditioned with my cute wife and boy was a lot of fun!

We went in and we were supposed to be very Wes Anderson but instead I think I was too enthusiastic...

When we talked about Christmas, doing Christmas we have to go all over Seattle to see so much of her family, whereas when we're in New York, it's all just my family for one night bang and its over.

Tomorrow I'm auditioning for two different things we'll see how they go; I am enthusiastic and have to remember to calm it down all the time.

We Went To The NYC Halloween Parade 2013

BEING A PART OF IT IS BETTER THAN BEING A SPECTATOR.

So for some crazy Global-Warming-Is-Going-To-Kill-Us-All reason, it was 70 degrees here in NYC on Halloween.

It is normally FREEZING cold, and because of that, I have never wanted to walk in the parade.

But this year I did!

So, When I got home from an audition I had, I asked Laura if she wanted to just throw together a costume and GO FOR IT! She Said Yes!

We looked around the apartment for what we could wear as costumes, and found a few things. Eventually, we came up with Jayne Cobb and River Tam from FIREFLY.

Not many people knew who we were, but those who did RAN UP to us and sang songs, fist-bumped, and quoted lines from the show. It was super fun to walk in the parade:



What was really wild is that there were so many people lined up to watch the parade, 8 and 10 people deep, huddled closely, hoping to get little glimpses of the creative people go by.

It was FAR more fun, exciting, and entertaining to walk because we could see everything, AND be a part of it.

That's the Life lesson there- BEING A PART OF IT IS BETTER THAN BEING A SPECTATOR.

A Lobbyist and a Senator Walk Into A Restaurant... Joke?

A Lobbyist and a Senator Walk Into A Restaurant... Joke?

Posted by Bones Rodriguez on October 28, 2013

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We are constatly talking about how our government is failing us. We itch and moan, and yell and scream, but sometimes it takes comedy and art to really get the message across.

After all the hoopla about the government shutdown, and the bribery, and Obama being a secret muslim, maybe it's time we look at the bigger picture.

What the waiter does at the end is my favorite.

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Midsummer Night's Dream in October, and it's wonderful.

I do a bunch of Improv, and what can be so magical about it is that there's the possibility of failure.

I just saw a production of Shakespeare 's Midsummer Night's Dream at the Secret Theatre in long Island City which captured that essence of risk along with the beauty of Shakespeare.

The cast has rehearsed all of the parts, and they don't know who they're playing until the audience pulls their names out of a hat.

The night I saw was WONDERFUL.

I loved the direction, and the performers gave us their joy in performance. I eagerly want to see it again, when the casting will be different, but the caliber of performance the same.

SEE THIS SHOW NOW.

Video 2 is up, and it's SUPER fun!

What does HE-MAN have to do with Blogging?

If you haven't seen the "Blog Beast" videos yet, #2 just went live, and it's super fun.

But when HE-MAN showed up, I have to say... it brought a lightness to my heart!

I really enjoyed Video #1, and it made me think that I didn't have to

be so damn SERIOUS and "Know-it-all" ish to give people some great

information and help them.

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