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Well I’ve had a good amount of auditions recently, all for women in their 40’s reminding me that I am actually rapidly approaching middle age - arghhhhhh. Unfortunately, nobody wants to give me their acting job at the moment. As you never get feedback from auditions it is really hard to know if you actually did something wrong .. although nine times out of ten they don’t choose you because you just didn’t look like the picture they had in their mind for the character. I remember when I got cast as ‘Agnes Tebbitt’ in The New Statesman, the Director coming up to me in rehearsals and asking why I wasn’t wearing my glasses … confused I asked what glasses? He told me he could have sworn that I had glasses on in the audition (which I didn’t) and that is why he cast me!!! Another time I got cast in an advert because the Director liked the way I fell backwards … it’s such a peculiar business.
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Absolutely right on. Many years ago, during a long-gone career in news radio, I accidentally impressed a few folks with a story related to Iran, of all places. I don’t even speak a word of Farsi, and know as little about the place as I can get away with and still consider myself educated, but suddenly I was “the guy” on Iran. I did my best, inasmuch as I had practically nothing to do with that region, and knew practically nothing about it. Yet, at one point I faced the distinct possibility of actually being reassigned and transported there in order to take advantage of my allegedly very deep knowledge and “intuitive knack” of Iran, of all godforsaken places — a country concerning which I know practically nothing. Yes, I suspected someone was trying to get rid of me. No, they really thought I actually was a great guy on Iran. Iran! “The industry”, writ broad, is odd.
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