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Back in Class!
This past week has been pretty busy for me, and I love feeling like I am actually doing something. On Thursday, I went back to class with Suzanna Lenir, and did in fact get to catch up with some friends who were there before I left, and also meet some new ones. I arrived there almost a half an hour before class, but spent the whole time talking with my fellow classmates about my trip to LA and our acting journeys. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who feels overwhelmed by all the decisions and figuring out we have to do 🙂 I was given a scene…
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Two for Two!
Now that I am back home and still pursuing acting over a more stable career, I am getting slightly stressed out about not doing enough, which leads to me making a lot of lists and feeling like I have an overwhelming amount of things to do. It is lucky that I have a mild case of OCD, because I really like checking items off my list, so things seem to be getting done. I have been back from Los Angeles for 2 weeks, and have already been on two auditions. The second one was Monday night, and I did the scenes 4 times, which I hope means they saw something…
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Home Sweet Home
This is the lovely weather I came home to. Nothing like the sun and warm weather of L.A., but it’s good to be home (although if home were in California, my life would be a lot easier 😉 ) It has taken me quite a while to update, partially because I have been busy, but also because there was a lot of uncertainty going on, and I didn’t want to write until I knew what was happening. I was getting ready to come home, making a list of the things I hadn’t gotten to do yet, when I got an email from April Webster, an amazing Casting Director I…
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Two Weeks to Go!
It’s really when you’re reaching the end of a journey that you truly start to see everything you wanted to do but haven’t gotten to yet. It also means I have to start figuring out what I’ll do when I get home. Which is exciting and scary at the same time. So far I have signed back up with the acting and improv schools I was studying with, and I’ve been trying to decide if I should move to Toronto and for how long. Right now there is a class I really want to try out, but it’s expensive, so I’m trying to make sure it’s worth it first. I…
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Whose Grass Is Greener?
I admit I had very unrealistic ideas about L.A. Not this trip, but eventually, I planned on coming here, auditioning for an amazing part in a TV show or movie and blowing them away, so much so that they would get me an O-1 Visa and I would become a working actress in Hollywood. Of course, I knew it was a dream, and have since become more realistic. My new plan consists of going home to Montreal, taking classes, auditioning, then doing the same in Toronto. The idea is that my Hollywood grade training will give me the edge I need to pave my way in Canada, so that I…
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It’s Not Just The Destination That Counts
Lately I have been looking at pictures of the Sundance Film Festival, or the SAG Awards show, and wishing I could be there. But, when this pang of longing hits, I realize that it’s not just being there for the premieres, festivals and award shows that counts. I’m sure it would be amazing to somehow get to be at either of those places, but how much more incredible will it be to walk around Sundance actually promoting a film that I put long, hard hours into auditioning and preparing and filming, or going to the SAG awards because something that I was in, or a performance that I gave, touched…
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Since when is Homework Scary?
This is perhaps an odd title, but I got homework in my acting class yesterday (at AMAW, but Sean was the one teaching) and it kind of maybe slightly terrifies me. I am fully aware that I need to become more comfortable in my own body, and less self-critical. I really thought that I was making incredible progress when I got to the point where I believed I was beautiful and worth it. Apparently, thinking I am pretty is not enough to make it as an actor, for certain roles, namely the one I am currently playing in class, I also need to think I am sexy, to be able…
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I’m Back!
I have been in LA for a week now, and I have gotten so much, yet also so little done. My first class with Zak Barnett at Margie Haber studios took place Tuesday evening, mere hours after I landed. I took a nap and was so tired and jet-lagged that I didn’t want to get out of bed, but I am so glad that I did. The class is full of interesting people, Zak seems incredible, and it felt so good to get back into acting! I tried really hard to incorporate everything I had learnt last time, and I think I managed a lot of it, but this is more of…
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Take Two
I am flying back to Los Angeles on Tuesday, and I cannot wait to escape the weather (but there are a few people I wish I could take with me)! These past few days I have mostly been prepping for this return, which includes packing (I love travelling, but packing is a nightmare!) as well as celebrating my mom’s birthday. This year, we took her out for supper, and went to see two movies, one of which was Parental Guidance, with Bailee Madison. It was a really good movie, and has a lot of bigger stars in it, but there’s just something about that 13 year old…I am guessing most…
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New Year’s Resolutions
Every year, after Christmas and before New Year’s, I make a list of my resolutions, all of the things I want to accomplish over the next year. This year, people have suggested an extra step in this process. Before planning what I want to accomplish in the future, I should take a few minutes to look back on all that I have accomplished in the past 12 months. It didn’t seem like much beforehand, but looking back, 2012 was pretty amazing. I graduated from McGill University, I traveled to Europe with a bunch of people I didn’t know beforehand, I took improvisation classes, I took on camera acting class, I…