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PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 9:45 am    Post subject: we all started somewhere Reply with quote

some scripts are more simple than others
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And that was after they asked him to read it faster but make it sound slower
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder if they asked him to sound like James Earl Jones.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, but was he James Earl Jones back then....
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Naw, they probably asked him to sound like Dennis Leary, Amy.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what? nobody wants you to sound like gene hackman anymore? ...or morgan freeman?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 7:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Morgan Freeman is part of the specs of almost every audition I get.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That piece is so old they probably wanted him to sound like Gary Owens.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now that's a script I can handle.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow. Woke me right up. Riveting! Bravo!!!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't believe how young he looks in that video.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK...now I feel old. Rolls Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bobsouer wrote:
Morgan Freeman is part of the specs of almost every audition I get.


Yep...and then there's the director who asked me if I could do Morgan Freeman but white. I paused and asked, "This is like a trick question on the SAT, right?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:01 pm    Post subject: Oh if only Reply with quote

If only I could get a script that easy...
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He was doing okay until he hit "M" and then he just sort of lost me.
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