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Zangief
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« on: July 22, 2009, 12:36:07 AM » |
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This past Monday I got the bad news from my manager; I'd been passed over for the role of Roger in the forthcoming feature film, "Bear City". Roger is one of the romantic leads in this new cinematic comedy centering on New York City's thriving bear community. Normally I take these things on the chin but, in reading the entire script just to get a more three-dimensional impression of the character for whom they were asking me to camera test, I fell in love with the whole enchilada. Didn't see that coming (hey, I hadn't expected to fall in love with Zangief, either). Anyway, as I got better acquainted with Roger, it was as if I could see right into his soul! I totally understand this guy! I began thinking, "I was born to play a guy like this!"
Alas, it wasn't to be but, because I now can't even imagine anybody else in the role, watching another actor land the part is still messing with my head for a while. I'll get over it eventually but, in the meantime, I landed the part of an alien in another new project. This makes me realize that I haven't portrayed an alien since I appeared as Spam in an episode of "Swordfish" called, "Off the Face of the Earth" so I watched it last night right after I'd landed the new role. Hadn't seen it in a long time. It was 1993 and I'd forgotten just how funny this episode really was! Plus the alien costumes were really cool. In one scene, my character, Spam, tries to manhandle the series' star heroine, Alice Melnick (played by Colleen Hayden) and she slaps his otherwise human face... only to have it come off in her hand, revealing his real green face's reptilian eye and bulging blood vessels beneath, causing the other characters to say, "EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"
All's well that ends well and Spam eventually gets sucked out of an airlock into space.
Now there's a strong probability that I will be appearing in a pilot for another new TV series as a relationship expert giving dating advice to young people.
Don't worry. Nothing gets in the way of "Street Fighter Reunion". We had to pass on the latest investor because she just wasn't moving fast enough to get us into production by this summer and that's crucial. Plus we have other investors waiting in line but, if they can't meet our simple criteria, we have an ultimate solution that'll force the show to get underway fast but, the only reason we're not implementing it yet until we exhaust the last of the attendant investors, is because the "ultimate solution" would entail budget cuts and smaller staff but we are willing to take it on the chin if we have to, just to get this baby in production and, finally, on the air. The reason we'd all have to take pay cuts is to ensure that the show itself is unaffected by these sacrifices in terms of quality.
Stay tuned as the announcement of the first day of pre-production looms ever nearer.
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