Last night around 7pm, I got a phone call from an area code I didn't recognize. I answered and was immediately greeted by someone working wardrobe for the Cellular One spot who launched into telling me what she needed me to bring to my fitting Tuesday. Keep reading. So, I just grabbed a post-it and jotted it all down. When she was finished, I asked what time I was supposed to meet them. "Production will call you with that." No problem. Naturally, I was pumped up. This was a SAG job, meaning I'd finally be paying up my initiation fees and all that. The shoot was supposed to happen Wednesday or Thursday, which also meant I'd be scrambling to get down to SAG before the shoot. I left a voicemail with my agents at KSA last night saying I'd been contacted by wardrobe and had apparently booked the Cellular One job. I figured I'd talk to them to get the details of times and such before rearranging my schedule with my employer. My head hit the pillow with that Christmas Eve excitement.
Alicia, from KSA, called back this morning with the surprising and incredibly disappointing news that I had not, in fact, booked the job. She says this happens way too often. Wardrobe gets a list of all the people in the final running and they try to get ahead by calling everyone on the list. So, when wardrobe calls you first...50% of the time it's legit and 50% of the time it's BS. Wow. Shot down in a blaze of safety pins. Well, now I know - if it's coming from anyone but my agent or the casting director themselves, it's not booked.
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