Audition for Fall Out Boy Music Video and Nothingness

Last Thursday I had an audition for a Fall Out Boy music video at David Kang Casting. Chaos! Complete cattle call. I walked into the building and there was a table set up with a woman behind it asking each one of us to sign a release before going upstairs to the audition.   Apparently they were shooting a reality show about casting directors. I was called in for Businesswoman in Park, along with lots of others.  The two women running the audition seemed overwhelmed. One was really soft spoken and no one could hear her or understand what she was saying. The other seemed a bit crabby, was angry that the people from groups not being seen at the moment gave her their headshot and size card before she wanted it.  She held up my headshot as I’m standing next to her and says “Who the hell is this?”  How absolutely unprofessional.  I grabbed the headshot and looked at her and said “Who the hell is this?”  She didn’t seem phased.  I avoided the reality cameras for the most part, deciding to give one funny grinny look at one of the camera men as I stepped into the audition room. We were asked to hold up a piece of paper with our name and “number”, say our name, show our profiles and then leave the room.  During the actual audition, I had the reality show camera in my face as well as the casting director’s camera.  An unidentified man walked in as it was turn for me to say my name eloquently or something like that and walked right infront of me, then infront of the casting directors camera as it was rolling.  I was perplexed as to the reason why they didn’t just pick the people they wanted from their pictures.  It was like auditioning for extra/background work.  My guess would be a ready and willing supply of free actors for the reality show, congratulations David Kang!  Yes, I still like David Kang, he’s cool and calls me in from time to time.  What a very “Hollywood” experience. I did not get that gig, it already shot this last Saturday and Sunday.  I haven’t gotten a  gig since July, and it seems so long ago.  Something in September?  You never know, but you have to keep moving forward.