Lights, Camera, Action!!

So recently I've been getting into acting and TV which is new since I'm normally just doing music all day everyday. I got my first casting call last month to be a student in the background on the Carrie Diaries! (The Carrie Diaries is the prequel TV series to Sex and the City.) It was like nothing I had ever experienced! The fitting was a few days prior to filming and I had to travel to Brooklyn for a 9am call. The fitting was at Steiner studios which is a giant lot filled with large buildings with giant stages, movie, and TV sets located in the Brooklyn Navy yard. I had to go to stage 3 for the fitting, I was literally expecting a big stage but when I went in, its a huge building with winding hallways and so many doors! When I got called for my fitting they had me wear white jeans, white converse, a t-shirt with blingy lips on it, bulky orange earrings, and an over sized denim jean jacket since we're supposed to be high school students in the 80's. I had assumed that we would be shooting the episode at one of the Steiner Studios Sets but it turned out we were shooting at a fancy prep school in Bay Ridge Brooklyn.          

                   (This place was huge!! So many movie sets!!)

(I had my fitting here!)

(Steiner Studios Layout!)

     
             



       
       
       
                       


On shooting day call time to the school was 5am, and I went straight to hair and makeup. It turns out my natural morning frizz hair was already 80's looking so they just hair sprayed it like there was no tomorrow. (I still can taste the hair spray weeks later.) During the scene I had to walk around and pretend to gossip with other students and was put right next to AnnaSophia Robb (the lead actress) so hopefully they'll keep that scene! It turns out that AnnaSophia and I are exactly the same height, have exactly the same hair color, and both had the same hairstyle with the same length. Everyone kept telling me "Oh wow I totally thought you were her!" One girl even took her picture next to me, and posted it on Facebook saying she met AnnaSophia haha good times! Can't wait to see the Episode!

(Here's me in my hott Jean jacket haha)                                           (Here's AnnaSophia, we kinda do look a like!)

Last Tuesday, I got my second casting call! It was a rush call to be a classy restaurant goer in the background for the show Psychotics that day filmed at The Chelsea Manor in Manhattan. As soon as I got the call, I had to take off my hello kitty pajamas as quickly as possible, put on real people clothes, run out the door, and do makeup in a cab. (I'm surprised I didn't end up looking like a clown from all the sharp turns the driver did.) When I got to the set, they liked my look and told me I get to be one of the 2 bartenders on the show instead! AND!!!!! I GOT A SPEAKING LINE!!!!! SCOREEEEE! While I was waiting for the scene to start, I got a call asking me to be a party club girl for Law SVU the next day!!!!! DOUBLE SCORE!!!! When it was time for the scene I pretended I knew what I was doing behind the bar, poured some pretty colored liquids, spilled it, hoped nobody noticed, and continued "bar tending." (Luckily my spill wasn't on camera!) The scene was pretty quick and I was so excited the entire time! I've also learned that my life calling is not to be a bar tender. I will spill your drink every time guaranteed or your money back. 

(This is where I "Bar tended")

I couldn't wait to be on Law and Order SVU since everyone's heard of that show!! I played a party club girl and got to wear a tight little black dress, my sparkly spiked Steve Madden shoes, a matching spiked necklace, and night time going out makeup. The scene was filmed outside of a club in lower Manhattan. I was right in front of the camera first in line waiting to get into the club! The scene involved a girl getting arrested and taken away in a cop car and people walking by actually thought it was real and were legitimately scared! During some of the takes random people wandered into the shots and begged some of the actors for money or asked why the police were there. It was quite amusing hearing the actors say "Uhhhhh yeah...this isn't real. Not even close." 

(I wore these to the shoot!)

(Downtown where the scene took place)

(My party dress!)