News for Ali Chen

Living the everyday life of an actor in Los Angeles

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Went in on Thursday to renew my contract at KSR.  It was great to see Brooke back at work and to chat with Samantha, Leah, and Jamie again.  Alicia was out of the office but I'll catch her next time.  I feel really good having them as part of my team.  

Recently, I talked to a non-entertainment industry businessman about his business and he said you know someone's on your team if they never make you feel bad about being you.  They never make you feel stupid or dismiss you if you ask questions, and they always support you and you do the same for them.

KSR is like that.  I like them so much I do as good of a job as I can because I want to make them money and help keep their reputation a stellar one.

Saturday, March 14th Audition for GM.  ASG Casting.  It's not often I get called in on a Saturday audition but it makes parking much easier.  The audition was a talk about personality thing.  I'll admit I was a little self conscious on this one and I'm normally not but I've done this long enough that I can cover it pretty well.

Monday, March 16th Audition for Intel.  Alyson Horn Casting.  My brother works for Intel so I had him look at the wardrobe description and send pictures of how the women dress.  Wardrobe was supposed to be Academic Hipster at Workplace.  And they said think people who work at Twitter and Facebook.    I dressed like the woman in the photos but I don't think that's what they really wanted.  

When the session runner saw me he switched me to a different role.  I've learned that its the essence of who I am that ends up shining through and not so much my clothing.  So that's okay.  It was fun.