Near Misses

Everyone, it seems, has had a brush with celebrity. There are near misses and there are complete misses.

Having worked at two different talent agencies four different times, I’ve had my fair share of run-ins with demanding individuals, but I was also lucky to meet interesting and talented artists, some of whom were fellow employees.

I was recently reminded by one of them of the opportunity we had to meet Bryan Adams on a video shoot. But first, we had to be submitted as Extras by the agents, then we needed to be hired by the casting director. It didn’t happen.

As agency employees we were not allowed to be submitted for acting jobs (though I did do an episode of Decorating Challenge [7th season, eps. 207] with one of the agency’s owners, for no money, and that seemed to meet the approval of the powers that were).

The casting breakdown (characters, ages, video theme) for his video “Open Road” had this description, for which we felt I was perfectly suited: “A woman described as 30ish to 40ish … she is real, not modelly and has some meat on her, maybe even heavy set.”

But as they say in the biz, the producer “went a different way.”

If you’ve seen the video, you know this to be true.