#Audition (Part One)

[swallowedabug]

WE ARE LADY PARTS SAIRA ⟶ Season 1 / Season 2

[charmwasjess]

Do you think Christopher Lee had an easier time acting in Ep2 with all those blue and green screens since he had all that experience trodding the boards and in the theater you learn to react to stuff that isn’t there? Like a ping pong ball taped to the wall is no big thing if you’ve done black box?

Heya Geode, what’s cooking? :D 

There’s a whole GREAT part in his autobiography, Lord of Misrule, where Christopher Lee talks about exactly this: filming that AotC scene where Dooku “escapes” Geonosis prior to his duel with Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Yoda. (Dooku driving real slow, looking back obviously to make sure they’re following, wants SO bad to show off–) 

Anyway, Lee talks about “[having] to mount a thing like a motorbike” and to pretend to fly, expressionless, while everything is happening on green screen, but there’s a wind fan blowing in his face because his Dooku cloak needs to flap and he’s trying to just stop from blinking cause it’s right in his eyes. The director Francis Ford Coppola happened to be on set that day, and afterward, he heaped all these compliments on Lee for so perfectly acting in the scene:

‘Amazing!’ I asked him what he thought was amazing. Was it perhaps the process? ‘No, no,’ he said in sepulchral tones. ‘It was all there. It was all there. Everything.’ I objected that I’d had absolutely no expression on my face whatsoever and did nothing. ‘It was all there,’ said Coppola. ‘Every marvelous bit of it. Great stuff!’

His impressions from the singular Star Wars chapter (I don’t think RotS had come out yet when my edition of Lord of Misrule was written) doesn’t seem… particularly glowing? I think he was really happy to be a part of Star Wars, which he calls “a spectacle,” not a story. He talks a lot about how Attack of the Clones was his first time filming with all the CGI and blue/green screen stuff and how baffling it was for him. He’s very gracious about it all and his usual low key funny, but I get the feeling he took the role, to use his own words “because you do not turn down Star Wars, unless you’re Harrison Ford,” not because he particularly enjoyed the story.

....A very hilarious-to-me complaint he had was that at that point with the prequels, “there was no book to read," which was a real difficulty for his process of getting into the character.  

[orbofrommyshows]

This is probably just full programmer projection but how pissed do you think Turbo was when fifth gen games started rolling into the arcade? Guy takes all this time to learn code and learn the different assembly languages like z80 and 6502 and maybe even m68k and he's probably reaching a point where he thinks he has it all figured out.

And then around the mid-ish 90s games along the same vein as Sugar Rush start coming out.

And now not only are they running on an assembly language Turbo had probably not seen before (MIPS), but they're also being programmed mostly in C, a completely different language that he will be learning for the first time without the help of any book or reference cards.

And so now he's almost worse off, because not only does he have to juggle figuring out which MIPS opcodes are the same and which opcodes are different from the previous assembly languages he learned (and handling 32 bit architecture) but now he's also gotta learn what inline embedding is and how to do it in a language he is only now encountering.

Oh to be a fly on the wall (or bug in the code lmao) when he was dealing with that.

[toddtakefive]

thinking about todd and his resolve toward… not quite isolation, but being alone in a room full of people again. he goes along to the study room to sit on his own and do his homework, he sits at the poets table and follows along with what’s being said while keeping quiet, he goes to the meetings at all but doesn’t necessarily contribute (in fact, if you watch him when cameron is telling the story ‘from camp in sixth grade’, you can see that he recognizes it before any of the other poets but doesn’t voice it until they all have). he’s not alone, necessarily, if you want to get technical about it, he’s just lonely, and he’s generally okay with that. he doesn’t have friends and that’s fine, he doesn’t participate in class and that’s fine, he doesn’t have a relationship with his family and that’s fine—he could live without any real connection and he’d have been, more or less, fine.

the thing about when he says “i can take care of myself just fine!” is that he isn’t really wrong, you can infer that he’s been doing it his entire life anyway, it’s that ‘taking care of yourself’ isn’t the same thing as really living or being happy. todd’s an introvert, certainly, and even as he gets closer to the group he defaults to sitting quietly in the background, but he’s also denying himself community out of fear not introversion. todd isn’t friendless because he’s an introvert, although that definitely plays a part, he’s friendless because he pushes anyone that might want his company away. if anyone has every wanted for his attention in the first place. (neil’s unwavering interest in him is unique (even when it comes to the rest of the poets, who are fine with todd coming along and joining the group, but aren’t really hellbent on him being there in the beginning) and his refusal to accept it is a direct result of being so lonely growing up.)

there’s obviously something to be said about the implications of his parents neglect, and the more than likely fact that he grew up friendless, and how those both play a part in in him being so skilled at dodging social interaction/being so avoidant of it, but by the time we see him in the movie he’s all but accepted his fate as being alone his entire life. he’s already accepted being the family disappointment, and he’s already accepted he’ll never amount to anything, and he obviously doesn’t like it, but he’d have managed living with that knowledge without the confirmation that it was all wrong. would he have been miserable? almost certainly. but he’d have managed. he’d done it for that long already, anyhow.

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

fit is fitting for the first audition of 2025

[marshmellowtea]

how do we think chris felt about sandra blatantly using her play to try and get that advertising position after the whole debacle of him doing something similar but Worse in christmas carol goes wrong

[scriv3lloirl]

Hey man, how’s it going?

I’ve got an audition to prepare for today and im layin in bed procrastinating :]

Howdy, man. It's goin good. Jus got home from doin nothin at school cus it was a half day haha.

Glad t' have a rest day after bein at rehearsals all week n dancin till m' damn legs fall off. Grease choreography is not fer th' weak.

Break a leg at yer audition, kid! I'm sure you'll do great.

[ineedsomethingoriginal]

I know Tomas practiced his lines in the mirror for WEEKS for when they went to madam Bo's. (Kuai prob helped him rehearse)

[cherry-rose-sunset]

how to be in a show without auditioning no glue no borax

[navysealt4t]

GUYS YKNOW HOW I GOT ENSEMBLE IN HADEETOWN?? I JUST GOT OFFERED UNDERSTUDY FOR EURYDICE, PERSEPHONE, AND MAYBE THE FATES

[beeftony]

Holy shit that Repeat Performance arc. That’s one scary Banana. It’s also probably my favorite arc of the show so far.

[supercantaloupe]

happy saturday! thoughts on my fair lady (been listening to it this evening) and/or vivaldi's gloria?

i love both!! my fair lady is my mom's favorite musical so when it was revived on broadway a few years back we went to go see it and it was wonderful. bartlett sher the director that you are. i am also very fond of the movie although i acknowledge the trouble of the ending and attempts to address it in our time. for what it's worth i think the sher revival did a good job in reworking it without doing anything super bold and i appreciate his subtle hand in such decisions. my own take i think would be to introduce a time skip between i've grown accustomed to her face and the final lines, and have him encounter and recognize her years down the line in her own flower shop by chance. does it pose logistical challenges for a stage production, perhaps, but i've seen far less feasible-on-paper things work out on the stage so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ also that said, i think if a classic/golden age musical were next up to bat re: "modernized" revivals, i think my fair lady could be very interesting to see with either an african or south asian eliza, speaking MLE instead of cockney. but one should probably find a director more familiar with modern day london than me to actually realize such a vision lol

and vivaldi's gloria holds such a cherished place in my heart. i sang it in high school choir (throwback to that time i ended up singing three voice parts on a single performance somehow lmao), then i played the oboe part for the domine deus alongside a friend singing the soprano solo for a few different performances, including, breathtakingly, the ospedale della pieta in venice where vivaldi worked and taught his girls music...truly an unforgettable experience 😍 i heard it performed last december at a baroque holiday concert from a professional symphony and while the entire thing was excellent the domine deus was so beautiful it brought genuine tears to my eyes. gorgeous gorgeous soprano. tasteful ornaments. beautiful tone from the oboe. ughh it's just wonderful

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[friend-bear]

i sent in an audition for a movie last night !! it would be my first credited speaking role in a feature film i really hope i get it 🤞🤞

[ricoelpobre]

Went on my first audition lolz. For a short film woohoo. Idk if I did good or bad I jst did what I had 2 do. When I’m famous I promise u all I will make it my mission 2 bring u a Paul Dano gay sex scene. starring moi….

[inkybinkyboink]

hi ok unpopular thought but you can tell when a cis/het person is playing a queer character because they always prioritize the queerness of their character over anything else

[krawdad]

I'm glad I had a chance to try on the Sweetums head before they took muppet vision 3D out