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Emlyn McFarland
- Jul 21, 2014
- 5 min
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch … but at least get paid for them: Getting cast on Veep,
When you’re on the set of a film or television show you meet a lot of interesting people. There are so many different people doing so many different jobs, lighting, sound, production assistants, caterers, wardrobe and background just to name a very few. Background is hard work; I’ve done a decent amount of it. It’s long thankless hours of standing and sitting around and waiting and then when it’s time to work you move to another location and stand and sit around there. I’ve n
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Emlyn McFarland
- Jun 20, 2014
- 3 min
Lonely Day
Trying to be a working actor some days are busier than others. Last week I voiced the character of Kitty Pride in an X-Men graphic novel for a company that turns comic books into audio books. It was a really fun job and I hope to work with them again soon. Wednesday I took a workshop with casting director Amy Gossels, I learned a lot, thank you Amy. I spend a lot of time on the Internet searching for castings to submit to and sometimes I do mailings. I go to tons and tons of
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Emlyn McFarland
- Jun 6, 2014
- 3 min
Am I Insane or Just Persistent?
I’m driving along to another audition in Philadelphia for a Pennsylvania Lottery commercial, no the irony is not lost on me, I am acutely aware that my chances of booking this part are about the same as winning big on a scratch off. I’ve already auditioned for at least six other lottery commercials and have not “won” once. I remember when I was a kid my grandfather played the lottery every week, I remember sometimes he would let me fill in the little bubbles with the numbers
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Emlyn McFarland
- Apr 28, 2014
- 5 min
Hey, You Never Know!
I don’t get sent out for on camera commercial auditions by my agent very often, 99 percent of the time they call me for voiceover auditions. The only reason for this as far as I can tell is because I have an unfortunate face. If anyone else has a better reason for my limited on camera commercial success please send me a message letting me know what you think it is. I’m pretty serious about this, the constructive feedback while being heart wrenching could also be helpful.
Toda
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Emlyn McFarland
- Apr 18, 2014
- 5 min
I booked it!
The whole drive to set I still wouldn’t let myself feel excited, I was completely ready to get there and find out a big mistake had been made and they thought I was someone else. I was fully prepared to be sent home as soon as the director saw me and realized I wasn’t the one he wanted. I carried on none the less remaining calm and steady and really unsure of what to expect. I mean it’s only one line, a kind of important line but still, pretty simple and again just one line.
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Emlyn McFarland
- Mar 21, 2014
- 7 min
“Deaf Woman’s Little Boy”
This afternoon I had an audition for a certain salad dressing that shall remain nameless as I don’t want to get in trouble or sued for breaking a non disclosure agreement. The company wanted to to anthropomorphize the dressing into a cute bubbly woman salad dressing with curly hair. The kind of salad dressing woman that we can all relate to. They want us the consumer to think “Hey, if I was going to be friends with a salad dressing I would be friends with her!” They had draw
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Emlyn McFarland
- Mar 14, 2014
- 10 min
A Tuesday
My husband works in DC, my parents live in Philly, and my agent is in New York. I live wherever there are jobs, gigs and auditions. One night I was with my husband in Washington and I got a call; I’m wanted for a callback in NYC. This is a call back for a new cartoon I originally auditioned for months ago so after not hearing anything for a couple of weeks I had just tried to forget about it. The only way to survive this business and the constant heartbreak and disappointment
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