A funny thing happened.. pt 2 - Sex Stories

A funny thing happened.. pt 2

... a kind of off-again, on-again basis for a few years. It didn't end particularly well, and...look, Holly is one of the neatest, sweetest ladies I've ever met; she deserves...like the best of everything." "According to Jack, she wanted you pretty badly." "I don't know. Maybe. I had just...okay, if I tell you something funny, can you please not tell fuckin' Jack Lindley? I'll never hear the end of it." I sketched a cross over my chest. I noticed Sim's eyes dipping to follow my fingers, but this time I had the good sense not to call him on it. "Cross my heart." "Ok. When this thing with Jeanette blew up—she was the lady I'd been seeing—I was back in the City, and I didn't have much going on, so I started going to some of these casting director workshops. Do you know what those are?" "Not really. I mean I've heard about them, but I've never been." "I think the idea started in LA; it's mostly an on-camera thing. For forty or fifty bucks, you sit down with a bunch of other actors in front of the casting director on some show—I think this one was for one of the Law and Order people. Anyway, depending on the format, you get a five minute interview one-on-one, and then you're assigned scenes and paired with another actor. You do the scene in front of the group, and the casting guy, or lady, critiques you, and they take everybody's picture. In the end you've done a kind of unofficial audition." "Yeah, but you've paid for it. Isn't that supposed to be a huge no-no?" "Clever courtesan!" ...

... I took that as a good sign. Either Sim was getting a little more comfortable around me, or the weed was kicking in. Either way worked for me. "That's why they call them workshops. It's supposed to be like a cold-reading class, and at the end the CD just sort of "happens to" leave with all the pictures. Now, some of these people don't even go through the motions. It's like scene, "next", scene, "next," and they're out of there as soon as the last scene is done. But some really try to make a class out of it. They give feedback, talk about how good or bad the pictures are, what should and shouldn't be on the res. This Law and Order guy was one of the good ones. He pairs me up with this other guy—most of the scenes were guy/girl. Anyway, I'm this asshole assistant district attorney, and my partner is some low-level mob guy I'm trying to sweat for information. It's a pretty good scene, and I'm doing my best, looking for beats and maybe laughs or something. I don't know. Anyway the other actor, my partner—who looks like some low-level mobster, by the way; he's got this head of obviously dyed hair, lots of product, receding hairline, wearing a cheap suit with the flashy tie, kind of rough skin, like acne scars on the face—I thought he was sort of dressing to type, you know? "Hey, here I am; I play cheap hoods." Seemed like a good idea; I mean Law and Order, they need cheap hoods. Anyway, he is not happy. He's also not very good. We read the scene, and the casting guy adjusts him a ...