I have an audition for the role of a pharmaceutical sales rep, probably an industrial bit. I'm talking to a doctor who I've just spent 3 minutes with lauding the safety and effectiveness of some antipsychotic or other. Then, I leave him with this,
"Thank you for your time today and I'm confident you'll find [drug] to be your drug of choice in the acute situation for patients requiring antipsychotic therapy."
Are you kidding me? Who writes this stuff? That's not a human interaction. No sales guy is going to say that. "Your drug of choice"? Who's taking the drugs anyway?
I almost want to bail out of this just on principle. I hate those drug commercials trying to entice people to get their doc to pump them full of purple pills, blue pills, green pills, pink pills, red pills, grey pills, etc. Just eat a bag of Skittles for heaven's sake.
update: The audition was a total waste of time. I did the one page of "script", and in my discussion with the guy afterwards he made it sound as though he expected it to be more free-flowing with a little improvisation. I'm thinking, "Then don't give someone a full page of chew-in-your-mouth text." He ended up saying they were really looking for "actors with pharmaceutical sales experience." Ha!
