I'm looking forward to the premiere on that, by the way, but, uh, let's kinda switch gears, if you don't mind, a little bit and just kinda, like, talk about more of like the industry p- uh, industry perspective of your time within the industry because you may have mentioned that you worked, or, in Hong Kong before.
I mean, there's a lot going on in Buffalo right now, so it's a good time to be back.
Like, the bigger movies that are coming here are casting some locals, but we're kind of in the same spot that Atlanta was when I was living there, where, like, there was this blooming film industry and a lot of stuff started filming there, but they still were hiring people from LA.
It, they don't, they don't trust Buffalo locals to the extent of hiring them for everything just yet.
They'd tell me to lose 10 pounds, you know? If you are right for a part, it won't matter how you look according to an agency.
A director has a vision of what they want in a character, and if you are the vision of what they see when they see your audition tape, and it's because you are doing you in the tape, and it's, it's authentic, and it, it is who you are, which makes it unique, that is enough.
You don't have to worry about what is the director gonna think? How do I break down this script so they will like me? Honestly, you're gonna get a lot of nos that way, but then you are going to be the right thing for one person.
For example, [laughs] and I, I am so very grateful for Taylor Martin for this, I was the vision for Audrey, and I just went in, looked at the script, kind of saw the vulnerability.
Like, the audition tape was, the scene was, like, one of the most vulnerable, um, scenes for Audrey in the movie.
So they really were looking for that and the subtlety of it as well, and I guess that's what they were looking for because I just did my best with the audition, sent it in, and I was right for the part.
I really enjoyed Audrey, but I'm saying this because I never had that experience before where I sent in a tape and someone was like, "Yep, that's who we're looking for." But it does happen.
I'm looking forward to the premiere on that, by the way, but, uh, let's kinda switch gears, if you don't mind, a little bit and just kinda, like, talk about more of like the industry p- uh, industry perspective of your time within the industry because you may have mentioned that you worked, or, in Hong Kong before.
I mean, there's a lot going on in Buffalo right now, so it's a good time to be back.
Like, the bigger movies that are coming here are casting some locals, but we're kind of in the same spot that Atlanta was when I was living there, where, like, there was this blooming film industry and a lot of stuff started filming there, but they still were hiring people from LA.
It, they don't, they don't trust Buffalo locals to the extent of hiring them for everything just yet.
They'd tell me to lose 10 pounds, you know? If you are right for a part, it won't matter how you look according to an agency.
A director has a vision of what they want in a character, and if you are the vision of what they see when they see your audition tape, and it's because you are doing you in the tape, and it's, it's authentic, and it, it is who you are, which makes it unique, that is enough.
You don't have to worry about what is the director gonna think? How do I break down this script so they will like me? Honestly, you're gonna get a lot of nos that way, but then you are going to be the right thing for one person.
For example, [laughs] and I, I am so very grateful for Taylor Martin for this, I was the vision for Audrey, and I just went in, looked at the script, kind of saw the vulnerability.
Like, the audition tape was, the scene was, like, one of the most vulnerable, um, scenes for Audrey in the movie.
So they really were looking for that and the subtlety of it as well, and I guess that's what they were looking for because I just did my best with the audition, sent it in, and I was right for the part.
I really enjoyed Audrey, but I'm saying this because I never had that experience before where I sent in a tape and someone was like, "Yep, that's who we're looking for." But it does happen.
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