Hoodwinked

Remember that really bad audition I had a couple Sundays ago?  Well I received this email from the film makers that ran the audition:

Thank you for your amazing auditions on Sunday, May 31st. We auditioned many great actors and actresses for the roles of MAN, WIFE, and FATHER…..great work everyone!

The good news for us is we don’t have to make any selections on who we are going to be using because we are going to be using everyone. That’s right, if you auditioned and signed the release form you will be in a film that has a chance to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie that we are making is a “Making of “Doritos in the Cannes” “…… We enjoyed working with you all and think we auditioned some very talented actors/actresses.   We apologize for the deception, but we found that the best way to give the short an authentic feel…was to not tell you guys until after the audition.

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We will obviously be giving everyone several professional DVDs of the final film for your reels.   We think that the end result will be something everybody can be happy with.  We are going to emphasize that the 3 guys running the auditions were idiots and all of you were unbelievable in humoring their strange acting requests. It is going to be a mockumentary comedy…and all of you will be able to add a high-quality comedy short to your reels. We have no problem with you saying you were in on it the whole time.

We can’t wait to see you in future productions. We are going to be shooting a lot of shorts this summer…so we are going to be keeping everyone’s information.  Again congratulations and thank you so much! Please keep in touch.

Sincerely,
Stephan and Zak

Here’s my problem with this… WTF?!  Okay, so you wanted it to seem “authentic?”  That’s what actors do, you don’t have to trick them into stupid situations.  It’s disrespectful to actors to pull a stunt like this.  Other than that, I don’t really care.  If it wins the contest and my face is on a Cannes film screen then that’s awesome, but if these film makers don’t ever learn how to trust and value actors they won’t go far. 

Sidebar: they liked my rap and asked me where the lyrics were from.

“I wrote them.”

“Oh. We like it.”

“Cool.”

The crummy part is that I’d love to play a part in a real mockumentary, those are some of my favorite movies.  Maybe some day.

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