
02 - Tristesse
Dead Eyes
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20 years ago i was fired by tom hanks. The reason was that he saw my audition tape and he thought that i had dead eyes. Actors audition, and we either get the job or we don't. But we almost never know if we came close or if we completely miss the mark. People who are casting actors often don't know what they are looking for until they see it. It's kind of a big jumbled mess. And in a lot of cases it's more art than science. I started doing plays when i was about ten years old. He tried to be an actor back in chicago in the early 19 seventies,. By the time i was born,
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