"Ok, But You Know, Like, Our Agent, You Know - He Says Things Are Really Gonna Break As Soon As We Get Our New Glossies!"

After a series of SNAFUs today, I am spending my almost-balmy, cusp-of-summer-y, life-in-the-big-City Saturday evening home.  And it's not so bad.  I have an audition tomorrow, so I have things to prepare for.

I did talk to my mom earlier, who seems pretty excited about my new pictures.  And I must admit that I am excited about the sort of fresh start that new pictures offer - but daunted by the task of a monumental mailing.  I will have to plan, prepare, research and budget. 

One of the things I would like to do when I get the new pictures is...  well... bear with me:

Ever since I was 14, people have been telling me I look like Susan Sarandon.  Every week, a nurse in my orthodontist's office would tell me I looked just like her - though at 14, living in the sticks without cable, I had no idea who she was.  (And nowadays it's a toss-up between her and Drew Barrymore.)

In college, I was compared almost weekly to "that chick from Rocky Horror" (you have no idea how many times people begged me to be Janet for their group RHPS-themed Halloween costume - a bra and slip in October? I don't think so), and one an ACTF adjudicator compared me to Leslie Ann Warren (who looks like SS).  In Boston, strangers would stop me at the art supply store where I worked to note the resemblance, and one time at my current job, my boss announced that SS was a few blocks away filming something, and that I should go down there now. 

And, you know, who am I to question my boss when he says to leave the office for no work-related reason?  So, I did as I was told and spotted her from across the street... but I felt like a dumbass.  What would I say or do?  So, I found my way back to the office (after some window shopping), feeling weird and sad.

I did try to mail her agents/managers about 8 years ago, but I don't know if the address I had was right, and I was so green I probably sounded like a nutter.  But this time... maybe I will do a little digging and mail a picture or two.  I once took a class with a guy who did stand-in work for Jeff Daniels and he said it was great fun... so... *shrug*  Why not try?   

**Feel free to tell me if this is a TERRIBLE idea.* *

I still don't know what I'd say.  And, with my luck, whoever opens the envelope (if it gets opened) will think I look nothing like her (I've found that when it really matters - people don't see the resemblance), or call the paddy wagon or something.

--Susan Atwood

PS - Kudos to anyone who knows what movie the title of this blog is from, and/or who said it.

Comments

[Justine]

I think it's a good idea. You could send them a brief general letter mentioning that you have resemblance and they should please keep you in mind.

Even better might be to write to them when you hear a specific project for SS is still in the development stage. Projects in development can be harder to find out info on, but if you hear she's doing anything that could possibly require the casting of someone to play a much younger relative (daughter?), I'd run with it.