A BRUSH WITH STARDOM

i'm once again stationed inside one of this earth's many starbucks... relying again on the wonders that a t-mobile hotspot bring. today's update should be rather exciting; i met a movie star.

raymond and i left the office early this morning with the intention of eventually hitting the viceroy, the hotel we're crashing at this evening prior to tomorrow's sony event. but first, raymond had scheduled a super-secret interview with an exremely popular young actress who must remain nameless. ...she'll be co-starring in one of the largest grossing films of the summer... anyways, we were to meet up with the actress in question at a sound recording studio where she was throwing down a voice-over for an upcoming project.

what surprised me was just how swiftly and simply the operation ran. the actress sat in the studio with a few sheets of lines. she spoke each one a few times, often with a bit of direction from one of the game's producers. the entire session took no more than an hour. the entire track was recorded into protools with minimal tweaking from the sound designer. he burnt the aiff to a cd with toast and handed it to the producers before they headed back to the office. swift? surely... but i couldn't help but wish a bit more direction would be given to the actors. i want voice acting in a videogame to be recorded with the care that an actor would give to a role in a film. it's that simple. that said, i think the actress we witnessed today performed rather well.

so yeah, about her. she looked exactly as i imagined... her hair was noticeably lovely, much shorter than usual, but still that lovely golden color that miss coppola captured so well in... whoops. so yeah.... raymond and i were both impressed that she introduced herself... "hi, i'm..." we did the same and shook hands.

when raymond went to interview her, i stayed behind knowing that having me sitting there, doing nothing would have been awkward. i could have asked her a few questions, but really only about the two films of hers that i really enjoy. not pertinent information to anybody except film nerds, i'm sure. so i waited. what was perfectly hilarious was that ray had only been in the room with her for a minute when he returned... the batteries in his recorder had died! yup, that's the gamespy way of blowing it in public. don't take offense, ray... nothing could possibly beat my blunder with the blizzard folks at gencon this year. i just couldn't get that camera working... until i got home and fixed it immediately.

he ended up getting replacement batteries and the interview went off without another error. i even heard the actress giggling from behind the door of the adjacent room. and then, i knew that raymond was working the magic. is there any lady he cannot make swoon?

yeah, so it should have been rather exciting... it should have been, yes. but really, nothing happened. pretty unexciting. but i did shake a movie star's hand.

...hmm, if only i could now get one to act for me... i better get busy.