Empathizing with Lindsey Buckingham

An agent's role in any actors life is to get that actor paying jobs. So an agent is a great thing to have - but they are often hard to get (ha, I said hard).  From the start of my journey, landing an agent has been one of my primary goals.  Many headshots have been sent to many agents with the hope that they like the way I look just enough so I could get interview. Well to make a very long and uninteresting story short and slightly interesting - I managed to get someone to actually think I was good and represent me (they like me, they really like me).

Now that I have representation, the next step is to get sent out on booked auditions. This step started with an audition last week.  The Agent contacted me about an audition to confirm my availability, I was available, so The Agent scheduled me to go.

I arrived at the audition.

The check-in guy validates that I'm on the list, then asks me to fill out some information and wait to be called. As I am waiting, other actors arrive.  A  young girl and her dad walk in.  The girl checks in.  The dad gives off the impression that he picked the short straw that said he had to drive his tween to an audition. The Check-In-List-Master then asks the dad "Excuse me sir, would you like to audition too?".  My mouth dropped.  I was now the Lindsey Buckingham in my own version of the ‘What’s Up With That’ SNL skit. The dad tried to politely to decline, but the Check-In-List-Master insisted.   The dad agreed to audition …the same audition I had to get booked from my agent.  The same agent that I tried for months to get.

Here’s hoping a guy doing the running man in a red track suit doesn’t show up to my next audition.