Nurse to earth's end

This Blog is still here! Good. Well it needs Medical attention.
Just a quick update on the first shoot this year. So I was featured extra for what seems to be an independent international Chinese film. Not a bad role, seems to be my comfortable level of responsibility. Working with apparently award winning Directress from China and with Maria handling the logistics and Sydney production side of things means a I got an opportunity to audition for the role. I was worried that my newly achieved (story for that and my short hair another time) mustache and beard would hinder my appearance as a nurse but I rocked the audition and I guess it kinda made me stand out.

I got to put some lines in and lead the camera at a party scene, story is a bit sappy, but in good spirit:

Representing NSW Male Asian Nurses!

!! Hypothetical Spoiler alert !!

Some Chinese Nerdy teenager has a break up with his girlfriend and she goes to Cairns or something, he injures his leg and ends up in hospital (Campbelltown in this scene). However, he refuses to give up on the Ex and wants to go to Cairns, so after my shift this awesome nurse takes him to an exaggeratedly Australian party where I introduce him to this real chill girl, they both have a road trip together and probably learn a lot about each other and fall in love.

That's my guess from the limited script for only my scenes anyway, it's predictable but that is how Asians love their stories anyway.

It was a good experience and it was interesting to work with the Chinese crew, they were similar to the Singaporeans in that there is quite a bit of free play with the script on the day. A bad habit for me, ad-libing when I fluff or can't remember lines, and I could tell that the lead was doing it too but the director was mostly happy with my performance. personally I know I could have used a lot more focus and done a lot more work. I leave you with these accidentally overly filtered photos that kinda make my skin look too fabulous. Till next entry... keep Crunching

Performance rating 6/10

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