(not much of an actress this one)Every time you watch a commercial you need to realize that hundreds of people made an ass of themselves in the hopes of being in that commercial.
Today I got oven mitts thrown at my head. And various other items, while a giant industrial-sized fan blew my hair. It was an audition for a Cox High Speed Internet commercial. I was told to walk in with my empty coffee cup prop, sit down at the computer -- a laptop they had provided -- and start typing, or pretend typing. Seconds later a giant fan was turned on and my hair was blown back, not too mention the skin on my face, and I was told to flail back in my chair acting as if I could barely hold on to the desk because the wind was so strong, but, as the camera operator instructed, I wasn’t upset about this wind, I was excited about it. I liked it! I just couldn't get enough! The wind, it turns out, was supposed to symbolize how astonishingly fast the new Cox High Speed Internet is. So while I was getting blasted in the face by the fan and flopping around in my chair like I was having a seizure, the camera operator started throwing things at me – an oven mitt, a few markers, a pencil, a ruler. Fortunately I had possession of the coffee cup. So there I was flailing back in my chair, dodging oven mitts and various other household items, my hair whipping itself into a beehive of sorts, but I was smiling, oh yeah I was smiling ‘cause I was so amazed by this magical high speed internet. And then I was told to stop all my gyrating and look into the camera and say, as loud as I can, “Cox High Speed Internet! It’s a beautiful thing!"
That's the sort of thing people do on a Tuesday at noon to get in commercials.
