Sleeping on the Job

Call time yesterday morning was 11:00 AM. I got to work, read my book until 1:00 PM got broken for lunch for an hour, read my book for another hour, and then Shannon had to "sleep" in a scene so I held her spot on a soft matress for 45 minutes while they set up the shot. It took them 20 minutes to shoot the scene and I got wrapped at 4:00PM. What a good Friday!:) :) :)

GAS!

$2.67 a gallon for gas AND I have to pump it myself?

Plane Ticket = Acting Job

In this town without fail, if you buy a plane ticket to go on a trip or go visit family, you will absolutely be offered an audition or an acting job of some kind. It doesn't matter if you haven't worked for six months, all you have to do is plan a vacation, and boom, suddenly you're the only actor in town.

This happened to me at Thanksgiving and it has already happened to two of my friends for their December holiday trips.

MY MASTER PLAN: Buy 365 plane tickets for next year so I am constantly in demand:)

Minnie Driver

I just got a job as a stand-in on a television show that will be on FX starting in March! It is called "The Riches" and it stars Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard. Whenever I tell people I'm a stand-in they question what that means. Basically I stand-in for a girl named Shannon Woodward and I do everything she does on the TV show only I do it for way less money.

For example: She has to ride a bicycle up a hill while saying lines to Minnie Driver, the girl standing in for Minnie Driver and I have to ride up the hill and say their lines as many times as it takes to get the camera angles and lighting right. Then they call "First team" and shoot the scene with Minnie and Shannon. Once they have it the way they want it, the director says "Cut. Print. Second Team". Second team is my cue to go back where Shannon just was while they set up the next shot. Meanwhile Shannon and Minnie go and get their hair and makeup fixed for the next scene.

I almost got my big break on set yesterday. Shannon announced that she quit and said "don't I have a stand-in? Let's just give her my part!" I was like "sweet! did everybody hear that?" Turns out, she was only kidding. :)

Dodgeball

OUCH!!!

I went to play dodgeball with my roommate. When I got there I was afraid to get hit by the speeding balls so I sat on the sidelines to watch. I got hit in the head by a ball anyway.

OUCH!!!

When you say, "I'm an actor ..."

When you say "I'm an actor" out here, people normally ask "so where do you wait tables?"

I'm lucky enough to be coaching and choreographing a junior high dance team when I'm not working on a set. The girls are really into it and they keep me on my toes.

I teach jazz and my teaching partner, Jade, teaches hip-hop. The girls just had a talent show and did really well. Now they are working on shooting a music video.

Play gets good reviews

I was the lead in a play in North Hollywood that got a good review. It was a wonderful experience because it was a play that the director also wrote. I got to originate the role since the play had never been done before.

The play was about two couples who go to Las Vegas for the weekend as one couple decides if they should get married while the other couple works on their divorce.

The cast party was supposed to be in Las Vegas to go with the theme of the show since Vegas is only a four-hour drive from the theater, but it ended up being at the house where I rent a room. We listened to an Elton John CD.

Not quite Vegas but close enough.

CSI: Miami

Can you hold your breath for two minutes? Acting job number two was being a dead body on CSI: Miami. I woke up at 3:45 AM to wash my hair and drive to set. I got there at 5:00AM and they immediately put grease and powder in my clean hair to make me look dead. So much for planning. They didn't stop there. They powdered my skin white, painted my lips white and they traced all of my veins deep blue, I shouldn't have even bothered to shower!
Shooting was a lot of fun. I had to hold my breath while the camera was rolling because the camera picks up the slightest movement. I was lying on a metal gurney "dead" for several hours and I had a conversation with David Caruso about skim milk.

Diamond Dallas Page

After things settled down from my car accident I went straight to work. I hung out on a set where WWF wrestler Diamond Dallas Page was shooting an exercise video. Did you know he was born in Point Pleasant New Jersey? And here I went all the way to LA to meet him!

My new blog

I'm Jaclyn Friedlander and I'm a graduate of Randolph high school.

While I was a student there I was the President of the coolest club they had there: The Drama Club. (okay so maybe it wasn't the coolest club but I enjoyed it) I played Mary Warren in the "Crucible" my freshman year, I was a featured dancer in "Hello Dolly!" as a sophomore, and by the time I was a senior I directed the fall production of "Female Version of the "Odd Couple" by Neil Simon My true self came out senior year when I was in "Hair" at the Bickford Theater in Morristown, playing a drug using hippie. (Well, it was my true self minus the drug using hippie part.) I graduated from a two year acting conservatory program in New York City. Then I took a scenic tour of the country as I drove 2800 miles across the country to Los Angeles.

I managed to drive 2800 miles no problem but then once I was in LA my car got totaled by a metro city bus. Talk about irony.