tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194736547135285348.post-54035145932651120632009-03-24T23:45:00.000-07:002009-03-24T23:45:31.014-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Dm5ZW2J3I-U/ScnS_vf7CvI/AAAAAAAABWA/LtFPz3rDWjo/s1600-h/SexyBack.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Dm5ZW2J3I-U/ScnS_vf7CvI/AAAAAAAABWA/LtFPz3rDWjo/s400/SexyBack.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317012827611532018" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This new year, I decided to be proactive and take initiative towards my dreams. I listed out a set of goals. Things such as, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">lose virginity</span>" or "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">spank any girl wearing blue jeans on Tuesdays and Fridays</span>". So in January, I started going after one of my most passionate desires. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">To become an exotic dancer</span>. Done.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Next, was to start acting. If you read my blog, you would know how I feel about acting. It's something I've always wanted to get into. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">To jump-start this interest, I would have to find myself an agent--a principal agent to be exact. These are the people who get actors into auditions for commercials or television shows. But before getting signed, I really needed to perfect my art. No agent is going to sign talent without any experience (high school plays apparently don't count in the 'real world'). And even if you do get signed, you must feel absolutely confident in the audition room. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">So I enrolled in acting classes at a local studio. This class was quite interesting. We talked a lot more than act. Hours of text analysis. "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">What is she trying to evoke when she says 'I'm hungry'</span>". We also talked A LOT about our emotions as well. "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">So, how did you feel when your father told you you were a mistake?</span>" Every week, I felt like I was sitting in the audience of a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Phil</span> taping. I plan on taking more classes after final exams are finished.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you remember, I also did some <a href="http://jchui.blogspot.com/search/label/Background%20Work">extras' work</a> in the past. Becoming an extra really doesn't require any acting experience. They're always looking for <strike>losers</strike> extras to "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">dance around as if you're in a concert</span>" or "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">walk around the coffee shop, then walk towards the door, and count 10 seconds, come back in but walk like you're from the ghetto</span>".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Extras' work can be quite fun. There's a lot of waiting though. 13-hour days sitting on broken chairs, staring at our "Kraft services" consisting of month-old trail mix. Some extras enjoy those 13-hour days where they just sit in the tents reading. I guess this could be an example of "easy money." But I don't know how anyone can sit around for that many hours. Whenever the wranglers look for volunteers for a scene, my hands are the first to go up. I can't stay in that tent all day--I try to avoid the extras who offer me drugs and sexual favours. I also enjoy watching the production team work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although it's fun seeing myself as "a student rushing to class" on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Psych</span>, I think I'm done with extras' work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whenever I tell someone who's signed to a principal agent about extras' work, they always give me the same answer. "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Stop it!</span>" Rumor has it that once you start doing more and more extras' work, you'll be known as "the extra". As an aspiring actor (a real actor), I cannot be thought of as just an extra. I'm also the extra with the amazing flexibility. Or the extra who can fart with a snap of a finger.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/38RbHwK-zJk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/38RbHwK-zJk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This episode came out a few weeks ago. If you want to see my sexy back, check out 2:05 and you can see my in my grey, striped polo.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The last extras job I did was for <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">The L Word</span>. Season six, episode five, to be exact. This job lasted two days (13 hours each). A long day of sitting around and filming inside the "coffee shop". The next day, we had to come back wearing the exact same clothes. I had one specific job: come in through the entrance of the coffee shop just as one of the main characters (played by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Leisha Hailey)</span> rushes out the door in a PMS-fit. We filmed that scene quite a few times in different angles. Each time, she would ram her bony shoulder into my chest. Bitch really got into the scene.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyways, I've had a few friends give me the numbers to their agents and told me to phone them. "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">The easy way in.</span>" Problem is, I can never get a hold of the agents. Either they're so busy on the other line with casting directors or they're screening my call. I can just hear them saying to each other, "HAHA, look Dana, it's that 'JACKY CHUI' guy calling again. Let's just screen his call like we usually do." I'm going to keep trying. But in the meantime, any Vancouver agents looking for an obese, 20-year-old, 5'11, Chinese, male (occasionally drag) to be signed to their roster, please leave me a comment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm tying to think positive and "attract" my goals towards me, but I have to be realistic too. In the entertainment industry, what's the probability that an actor would work full-time as an actor (especially since I'm Asian) in Hollywood. But yes, I am looking towards the positive because I am an optimistic person.  Acting is something I've always wanted to get into. But if it doesn't work out, I have many other interests and goals that I'm also pursuing and aspire to. For example, one of my fallbacks would be, as I've mentioned, my career in exotic dancing. They don't call me Banana Man for nothing.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1194736547135285348-5403514593265112063?l=jchui.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Secret Agenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05074978694256841305jackychui88@gmail.com9