Sunday, July 10, 2011

Movie Madness

So yesterday I went to a casting call for pregnant women needed for a movie shooting in town next month.  It was the biggest cluster fuck I've ever been apart of!  They tell all the pregnant women to be there @11am but advertise all over town for an open casting call to start at 10am for everyone else.  So I get there and thousands of people are waiting in line in the hot humid Atlanta heat, the line is out the Hotel door and wraps around the parking deck floors several times.  There is no circulating air in the parking deck and now you have pregnant women and toddlers & babies in a very uncomfortable situation.  WTF were they thinking?  I stood in line for about half hour and moved about 12 feet so I decided to go in the lobby to find a bathroom cause pregnant women need to drink a lot then in return pee often (note to self casting company).  The lobby is a mad house, if the fire dept showed up they would had shut the Hotel down.  There is one bathroom in the lobby with 2 stalls, arn't you supposed to supply adequate bathrooms when staging events, where were the port-a-potty's?  SO after I waited in line another 20 min to pee there was no way I was going to get back in the line outside.  I pushed my way to the front of one line which led me to eventually get into 3 more separate holding area lines.  So at the finish  line of this mess was a small room with 2 women taking a general form from you and ONE photographer snapping your pic.  Seriously, that is your professional master plan for casting.  So after 2 hrs I was on my way and really thought about calling the police on the whole gig for human endangerment!  It was so hard to get in and out of that lobby if there was an emergency no medics could get in, people would had been crushed by a stampede.  And to remind you again 95% of the people there were pregnant or under the age of 3.  So there is my rant, pregnant women need cool spaces with seating, food and bathrooms when asked to be somewhere for a long duration.  Shame on you film industry if you think that was acceptable!!!!

1 comment:

  1. Yikes! I was wondering how that went. You better get a part w/ some good screen time after all that!

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