This was going to be my blog:
Title - How to feel old in Hollywood
Content - Move there
The End
Then I decided to be more specific, because you need a bit more than that to laugh at surely!
I went to my acting class last night and was partnered with an actor who was new. We were given scenes to work on and the idea is that you don’t rehearse with each other beforehand, you work on it by yourself for ten minutes and come up with your own background for the scene and the moments before. I decided to be brave, because that always works out well doesn’t it? Actually, I had to go up twice and I had already done my first scene and made that actor my brother, so I decided to give this second relationship a bit more of a romantic setting. Like I said, brave.
The actor (let’s call him Paul) looked a bit younger than me and I would say he was quite attractive in a tall, handsome, modelly kind of way. This is LA after all. So, we did the scene and I thought it went really well. The teacher asked me what the relationship was, so I explained how he was my friend’s boyfriend and he had been coming over to help me with social media for my new job and I had potentially misread the signs and kissed him. I’m not that brave, I did say he didn’t kiss me back but meanwhile I’d been hiding in the bathroom for 15 minutes and he hadn’t left my apartment. ‘Great,’ said the teacher, ‘What about you Paul, what’s this relationship for you?’ Paul said, ‘She’s my mom…..’
I’m sure he said more but I couldn’t tell you what he said as I didn’t hear it over the sound of my own mortification. Seriously?????
Now of course I’m old enough to be a mum, but this dude is 29. He eventually tried to make me feel better by saying it wasn’t because I look like I could be his ‘mom’ but more because I’m motherly. Oh, what a relief that was!!! I even found myself telling him that if it made him feel any better, my friend (WHO I HAD MADE UP) was a lot younger than me. I wasn’t sure what to do after that, drink heavily, get on a plane or have Botox. I’m still deciding.
