Last week, I got a call from a casting agency. They had read my application for Queer Eye For The Straight Guy and wanted me to come to an open casting call. So I did. That was this past Saturday.
That morning, my father called and I told him what I was doing. He had never heard of the show. I explained the concept, and he asked me which part I was going out for. Right.
So Denise and I headed to a mall in Paramus. I met some interesting people who also wanted to be on the show, mostly because their wives or girlfriends suggested they go on. The girl who interviewed me was very nice. She thought she recognized me from somewhere.
That happens a lot to me for some reason. For example, the first time I saw Dar Williams she talked to me as if we knew each other and said she recognized me. I told her I had never seen her before. Then I talked to her the following night and she didn’t remember me. Anyway…
The interviewer said that some of my issues would be good for television, and she wrote down some notes about that on the form she gives the producers to help them select. I’ll get a call “soon” if I’m chosen to move on to the next step: an interview at my apartment with some of the people involved with the show.
In an effort to look a little scruffy, I didn’t shave for a few days (which is normal) and wore a pretty strange yellow plaid shirt which I may have worn once in the past year. I wore some older pants that had a little bit of fraying at the bottom. Most people there had tee shirts or jerseys.
We met Jai Rodriguez from the show and talked to him for a little bit about RENT… And had him sign the playbill I got when I saw him in the show last year.
I’m not building up my expectations, but it’s been fun so far.
