Audition:
“Samsung” @ Alyson Horn Casting. I
used to audition at this office regularly, but I haven’t been here in a good
while now and I’m glad to be back…
I just wish the audition would’ve gone better. Oops.
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This is a long peak into my journey to make my way through Hollywood. You will learn way more than you ever wanted to know about me. Hopefully, it will be worth your time.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Today I arrived in the Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for the
wedding of a friend. Wow, this is
what I needed to take my mind off of the “situation” with my father, my career,
my night job, the suicide manifesto, etc.
This wasn’t so much a planned trip, but it sure was the right trip and
at the right time. I had been
wanting to venture down to the Caribbean for a long time to “see the blue
water” and it’s totally worth it.
We’re staying at a 5-star, all-inclusive resort called The Majestic
Elegance. I’ve definitely never
experienced anything like this before.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
This morning I received an interesting email. It was a group email that included 11
other people that I didn’t know.
It was from a guy that I met years ago while doing casting director
workshops. A really, really nice
guy in my experience, but I hadn’t seen or spoken to him in just over 10
years. He was no longer pursuing a
career as an actor and had moved on to becoming a photojournalist. He often traveled to poverty stricken
locales and took the most beautiful photos.
I had reached out to him about 5 years ago, just to check in on
him to see how he was doing. He
responded, we caught up through email and that was that.
The email I received today almost seemed like his account had
been hacked so I only “sorta” paid attention to it.
BUT.
The second line in the message read as follows: “But if you are
receiving this now, it means that I am dead.”
Yeah, that’s exactly what it said. I needed to get out of the house for an audition, but it
stayed on my mind.
Audition: “ProActive” @ Ross Lacy Casting. This was a fun audition, but at the same time I don’t think it went so well for me, go figure! I don’t know, I just don’t think I was fully getting it.
Audition: “ProActive” @ Ross Lacy Casting. This was a fun audition, but at the same time I don’t think it went so well for me, go figure! I don’t know, I just don’t think I was fully getting it.
When I returned home I looked at it again and it started to
haunt me. It was suicide letter.
He included a link to the information he wanted us to have. Part of me didn’t want to click on it,
but I eventually did. At first it
didn’t seem to work, but I later realized that it was taking so long because
there was so much content to be downloaded. The package included photos, text messages, emails, audio
recordings and 585 pages of written text.
Yeah. Seriously.
Needless to say, I was shocked. I didn’t know this person really well outside of seeing him
at acting workshops, but to me, he seemed like a great guy. I couldn’t figure how or why I was
included in the group email. It
put me in a really dark place for so many reasons.
Obviously, I haven’t read hardly any of the manifesto yet, but,
in a nutshell, this is what he says happened. Basically,
he was a child actor and according to him, his parents used his earnings from
aged 5-11 for their own personal gain to purchase real estate. He says he was abused verbally and physically
by his parents and sexually by a school official. He says nobody stood up for him, even people that were
supposed to by law.
So he spent the last 5 months of his life putting this package
together to distribute to everyone possible. I later found out that he also sent it to the police before
taking his life along with the lives of his parents.
Yeah, it was murder-suicide.
I’m speechless. I
just don’t know what to say. I
really don’t. I can’t imagine how
I ended up on a list of people to include in this. I literally hadn’t spoken to him in more than 10 years.
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