Soo...I'm in a movie

[MissingName]

plus I want to sit at the back of the theatre with a big cigar and say EY I KNOW DAT BROAD.

This is probably the best idea I've heard all day.

[Zerlina]

It depends on who picks it up. As far as I know there are distributors for Canada and Japan and right now they're in talks to pick one for the U.S. As for Europe I'm not sure.

Likely it'll be on megavideo though, so you can stream it if all else fails.

[drenrin2120]

Let's all play nice from now on.

[Zerlina]

drenrin hasn't played mario 1.

[Archem]

The bastard!

[drenrin2120]

pretty much how I feel

[Prpl_Mage]

drenrin hasn't played mario 1.

Oh yeah...

[Zerlina]

(This is a spread from a Canadian Horror Magazine)

[Moosetroop11]

Nice.  Seems a lot more real to me now.

Good to see you're going up in the world ^^

[Archem]

Lookin' good!

[Razor]

Well Zel, you've become the coolest person on Charas. Hooray for you.

Why don't you tell us more about the whole experience. Like...
Did you get to read the whole script or just your scenes?
David Hayter!
What's the whole movie makin' process like from your angle?
and etc

[Felix-0]

<3
awesome

[HobomasterXXX]

David Hayter!

That's really all that needs to be said.

[Zerlina]

Well Zel, you've become the coolest person on Charas. Hooray for you.

Why don't you tell us more about the whole experience. Like...
Did you get to read the whole script or just your scenes?
David Hayter!
What's the whole movie makin' process like from your angle?
and etc

haha >.> i dunno about coolest. As we speak I'm eating a pie I made straight out of the baking sheet, playing skyrim and sitting on a pile of laundry I should have folded yesterday...but...sure! I'll tell you what I can without giving anything of the film away.

They originally sent us a bunch of sides (the scenes you get for an audition). I had another audition that morning, but I really liked this one. They gave me the option of reading one or both Japanese characters. There was a heat wave at the time, so I was going 2 hours into the city in a schoolgirl uniform (with knee socks ), and I was so pissed off by the time I got to the place. When I got there the casting director told me I wasn't allowed to audition because they only wanted to see people who spoke Mandarin or Japanese, and I didn't speak either. I told her that I was good at phonetics and that my agent double checked if that would be ok. She insisted that she never said it was ok and it must have been a mix up (to this day I don't know exactly what happened but I guess there was miscommunication between the two of them). I argued with her until she finally said she'd let me read since I came all that way. I got to meet her a few more times after this and she actually turned out to be a really cool lady, but my feeling at the time was sort of like "I JUST CAME TWO HOURS HERE IN FORTY DEGREE HEAT, LET ME READ OR I WILL END YOU!"

Anyway, suffice to say...I think it worked for me...

A couple hours after the first audition I got a call from my agent saying they wanted to see me again. They sent us the same sides in three different languages. I had to learn it in Japanese (I'd already learned it slightly differently in Japanese), Mandarin, and Cantonese in three days, and be able to perform it in all three + english. In the end I focused on the Japanese lines because I knew that they were originally intending on using Japanese, but I also learned the Mandarin, Cantonese, and English sides. I skyped with my friend who had just moved back to Japan and he helped me improve. At the second audition I got to meet the girl playing Suki, and funnily enough we were both thinking "please don't let her be a bitch, please don't let her be a bitch" before we met each other. She turned out to be one of the most awesome people I've ever met.

At the second "audition" we found out we'd already been cast and they were just testing us together. They also brought in girls to be my stunt double, which was really cool.

I read the script and I really really enjoyed it (it's very different from most horror films), but I was intimidated about speaking Japanese, having to sound like a native speaker, and still being able to give a good performance. They set us up with a tutor, though we only had one day of tutoring (about three hours), so the three of us that needed to speak Japanese needed to be very good about writing things down. The tutor was also there some days during filming (though not all of them).

Dave is very nice, he was very kind and like a big brother to the younger actors on set. He's really a great guy and not pretentious at all like you might expect from an LA actor. Most of the crew loves MG so he sometimes did the voice just to brighten up their day. I remember I was in the honeywagon and I was playing Braid (the screen was facing away from him), and he turned to me and said "What are you playing?" Then shaking his fist he said "It better be Metal Gear!" He had a real sense of humour about things and about his fame. Honestly if you're going to be a fan of anyone, be a fan of him because he's such a nice and talented guy.

The filming experience was great, though it wasn't easy by a long stretch. We were outside mostly for night shoots in Canada at the end of autumn. The temperatures were dropping below zero and we had to do a lot in nightgownss, including running down stretches of road over and over again as fast as we could go. By the end my ears felt like they were going to fall off. The worst part was probably when they would douse me in fake blood, because the blood was cold and it didn't dry (and I was already freezing). There was a blanket I could wear but it was a fuzzy blanket and the fluff from the blanket kept getting stuck to the blood on me and under my nails, and in my shoes, it felt terrible.  I was also injured a couple of times. But this by no means means the experience was terrible. It was probably the best month of my life, I had so much fun, and wish I could do it every day! Except with Terra I've never been on a set for more than two days, so it was strange but also wonderful to play one character for so long, and to be able to actually build an arc for her. Because of the sheer amount of time I was able to spend with her, I was able to discover mroe about her than I would if I were only with her as a dayplayer. I was also able to speak more with the director and ask him what he wanted. By the end the whole cast and crew was like a big silly family. I didn't mind waking up at 4am to go to work because I knew that I was going to be able to see them all and also that I was going to be doing the thing that I love best.
I guess you could sum it up like this: It wasn't an easy set, but it was a wonderful set! And on the final day, I wrapped around noon, changed, and went to class. My legs were still covered in blood and people were staring at me when I walked in. But I just sat down, listened to the prof, and thought "man...real life is really lame..."

[Archem]

Sounds great. I think I may envy you...

Now then, back to being the real coolest person on Charas.