Posted: Aug 1, 2007, 10:05 PM CST
New to the site, blah blah, trying to post on different things, maybe make friends or have people laugh at my jokes, whatever...Here's one of my SEVERAL embarassing moments.
I was a child actor and was trying out for a kid role on Star Trek TNG (an extra with lines, like it matters.)
Anyways, the callbacks came and I was invited back. So I am reading alongside maybe 4 other kids and I am hanging out by the donut and coffee table at Paramount. I see a script lying on a chair, so I am bored and pick it up and leaf through it. Keep in mind I had only read MY scenes, the ones I was in. Now I am seeing the whole thing, and I hate the particular one I am reading.
I see a typo or two, a misspelling, and some dialogue that makes NO sense. So I start correcting it with my pen, crossing things out, rewording them etc. I am like, 8 years old or so.
A man walks over to me and askes what I am doing. I say just reading the script, someone left a copy around, I'm just reworking it a little, you know. I look up. He is LIVID.
That's the master script, son.
Dead silence. I'm like nooooo. He's like yeaaaaah.
Another silence.
I look back up at him and say "Well, it should have been laminated then," and run off. LOL
Looking back I can laugh, but I was mortified.
It turned out okay. He was the Exec. Producer, and he came to me after I didn't get the role and he offered me a job ghostwriting. He liked the changes! lol I was a KID, writing for Star Trek TNG. Amazing. This is why I have ALWAYS kept a pen on me since. You never know.....