“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.”
Still hanging out – found out that i’m currently in Chongqing – it’s a pretty neat mix between New York high rises and the gaudy lights of Las Vegas – I’m told that that it closely resembles Hong Kong.
Guys and girls here are both REALLY skinny. I mean like 26″ waist skinny. And there’s been maybe 1 fat girl. I’m a little bit above average *cough* and possibly really weird (??) looking with the result that I’m getting stares from every guy on the street. And not just the American glances. It’s the stop, STARRREEEE and move closer… I had two waitress girls from this fancy restaurant take cell phone pictures of me and Chendi.
Speaking of waitresses, all of them are really cute and wear these adorable chinese dresses. Also, all the girls have been going ga-ga over Chendi – which I think is super cute
We’ve been going back and forth between one shopping mart where I went to the most expensive store and bought a *gasp* $30 dollar t-shirt. My Chinese is super bad, but even I could tell the snarky salesperson was telling the girl I was with that first of all, the t-shirt would only go with SHORTS, and second, the baggy fit of the first t-shirt I tried on was good for my above average chest size *shakes fist*
We also ate lots of food. I mean LOTS and LOTS. There’s this special type of spice they grow and use here that numbs your mouth and it’s sooooo good and in everything .
Also, on a side note, about 1/5 of the guys here look EXACTLY like my friend leonard. Pretty hilarious.