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[bobbyhanlon]

a few months ago, i was offered a part in this stupid new film involving daniel henney (the mr. robin one). they wanted me to play a hammy stereotype of an english businessman who would refer to henney as a 'yellow monkey' and some american businessmen as 'bleedin' yanks'. so far so good.. anyway, after passing two auditions, having tons of makeup slapped on my face and a clothes fitting session, plus other rehearsals, i hear nothing...

so i call them time and again, and the rep just won't answer his damn phone. finally today i got through to one of the other actors in my scene, and he told me that i had been dropped, since the makers (sidus) had decided they would only have foreigners who were married to koreans (F- visas). turns out the rep had been totally avoiding me, the cowardly rat.

of course in the meantime i rather excitedly told my friends that i was going to be in the new stupid daniel henney film, so now i look like a complete lying arse. sidus entertainment, damn you! i hope your film bombs!

[RACETRAITOR]

I think you'll get your wish.

[Butterfly]

[StAxX SOuL]

It's like acting... you know...

I think undertaking such a role would pale in comparison to being cast as a rapist or murder... don't cha think?

But yea... it's still just acting

[the_beaver]

Dude, in the business 99% of what you audition for you won't get and 90% of what you do get you won't come through.

[Butterfly]

[diver]

[Captain Corea]

Sorry to hear about the run around they gave you bobbyhanlon. I ended up being in that scene (but I was called on the last minute so now speaking part for me).

So instead of your friends being excited, it ended up with my wife being giddy that I met Daniel Henney (nice nuff guy BTW).

The visa bit was an issue and I think that most companies are going with Fs from now on. It's bad that they avoided you... was his name Danny (the agent)?

[4 months left]

Butterfly wrote:

[bobbyhanlon]

ah no hard feelings captain corea.. hope you enjoyed it! did you go through those lines about american business methods being based on the old british way, and all that nonsense?
and yes his name was danny, so if you see him again please tell him he's definitely not on my christmas card list, to put it mildly!

small world that it is, i actually met the guy who played the 'kiddie fiddler' once; he told me that he had just arrived in korea and had gotten conned into it. he didn't seem like a particularly smart guy anyway, and apparently they told him it was for a drama series, and not a documentary about us white devils.
i also did an interview with SBS once and they spent the whole time trying to get me to say how wonderful korea is, which frankly is rather tedious. perhaps people should realise that the more the korean media praises korea, and criticises every other country, the less likely people from other countries are to actually like korea.

in my defence, butterfly, about the racist character thing, 1. its just a film, and 2. i was going to totally ham up the most ridiculous accent to take the piss; but yeah, i get your point.

[Benicio]

This reminds me of last summer when director Kwak Kyung-Taek was shooting his supposed to be blockbuster "Typhoon"(Taepoong) here in Busan.
I got a call from a friend of a friend late on a Saturday night that they needed some guys to play some parts first thing on Monday morning. I was free, so I said I'd do it.
Sunday, I finally get the casting person on the phone and they tell me that they need some guys to play US soldiers guarding the "embassy".
I tell them several times that I'm pretty short and probably don't fit the part. They said "show up. We need you".
So I show up on Monday morning with a couple of other guys that got the call. The film crew was 2 hours late. The casting guy took one look at me and said "you're too short. We can't use you". I had already told them that I was not a tall guy. I guess they didn't believe me.
Anyway, I hung out and watched the filming as I had never been on a movie set before. None of the stars were there and all the foreigner parts were played by English teachers- not professional actors(the same as Welcome to Dongmakgol).
It took all day to film this one scene that took up about 20 seconds.
The one guy with a speaking part was playing the "American Ambassador". He looked the part, but he was Australian with a heavy accent. The dialog was incomprehensible as well. Luckily, they followed the advice of all of us and dubbed in new dialog later.

Well, the movie was crap and it bombed at the box office.
That was my experience.

[Julius]

[billybrobby]

[Juregen]

Damn

why don't they ever need belgians, unless to make fun of them

[4 months left]