“Goldie Chan, cast as the girlfriend Julie, came by. She was wearing a blue hoodie and belted leather boots. Chan had got the notice of the 78-hour film push in advance and was on standby; she had hooked up with Stroganoff through castingconnection.com.
“A great resource,” she told me. “There’s a bunch of projects out there, but this one looked particularly cohesive and professional, which is not always the case in the Bay Area.”
The petite, intelligent-looking Chan—”actor first, casting director second, writing third”—earned a degree in biology and then switched careers. She plugged her upcoming locally made film, Underachievers: Champions of Mediocrity (”Going live in February, it’s hilarious”), and also mentioned that she had done an industrial film for Wells Fargo. “We’re telling them how to dress appropriately and so forth. Everybody who gets a job as a bank teller there is going to see my lovely smiling face.”
Chan leaned back against the chassis of a parked car and went back to studying her script. “They’re rewriting it now,” she commented. “I mean, they’re perfecting it.”
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