School Marm, Saloon Dancer, or Civil War Amputee?

So, I went to my first Open Call for movie extras the other day! Quite the interesting experience.... The call was from 10 am to 9 pm. I got there with a friend at 7pm.... hehe, late as always.... Good thing I didn't go at 9am, though.... apparently the line wrapped aroung the building! Me and T waited in line for about 30-45 minutes before getting into the application/photo/wardrobe fitting. Russ got there even later and got through even faster than we did.... grrrr! The entire process took about 1 1/2 hours.... not too shabby..... waiting for wardrobe measurements took the longest.

Wardrobe measurements, you ask? Oh, I forgot to mention.... the casting call was for an old western movie.... how much fun would that be?! Maybe I'll be a school marm.... or a saloon dancer.... or a civil war amputee (hehe)! I'd really test my (non-existant) acting talent with that last role!

Close to 3 thousand people went out for the 1-day only Casting Call.... even more mailed their applications (I should have thought of that!).... They begin their selection process in early September.... so I would assume that T, Russ and I will only find out if we made the cut in late September.... I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Oh.... only after going out for the Casting Call, was I informed by Russ that the one and only Brad Pitt was starring in this movie.... oh boy.... now I've got my toes crossed too! And now I know why there was an inexplicable number of teenage girls at the Casting Call....