 I invited Jennifer here today because she often will book things that we both auditioned for. It's so true. It's so true. One of the things we both auditioned for was Ring Central. Back in like late summer, early fall of 2021, I thought it would be fun to look at our auditions, look at the final product, and then just see who they ended up casting. And the funny thing is about this specifically is that I didn't even think of this, but for this audition, I actually filmed a YouTube video where I got acting coaching for this specific video by Timothy Hulls. Do you know what Timothy Hulls is? Yeah, good. Even more, it's coming through. You don't want to smile to be coming through, but it's coming through. One of the things I struggled with and still struggle with is deadpan acting specifically. Like, there's a lot of that. And you will see, I looked at part of my audition because I was trying to find it and I was like, I know why they didn't cast me because they didn't want the commercial to be angry. Mine is a little angry. Mine feels mean, but so we'll, you'll see in a minute. But yeah, that was like the direction was deadpan improv. I struggled with that too. I'm such a physical comedy person, like very reactionary. A lot of my commercials you'll see like are my face like, okay. Yeah. So deadpan to me is like, yeah. I'm excited to see this now. So the description for this, it was by Kristen Beck casting in the Bay Area. Shout out because I auditioned for them all the time. Yes, love them. Yes. I wonder if I've ever even been cast in anything, maybe like two or three times, but I feel like I've auditioned with them 100 times. But that's good though, right? If they keep calling you back, that means they're trying to find something for you. Yeah. That's the good, that's like the one piece of feedback we get to hear as you send your tapes out into the void. It's like they keep calling you in, they believe in you and they're like, we're going to get you something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Same way that we're casting is another one. I auditioned. Taylor. Taylor, we love Taylor. Okay. So the description for this one, her name is Erin, female 30s, African American, Latinx, Indian or Pakistani. That's the description of it. Did you get any kind of help to prepare for this audition? I did not. Okay. I watched a couple clips of Parks and Rec for Opipraza and Nick Offerman. I was like deadpan. Oh my God. I was like, I'm going to be a star on Silicon Valley because like they are legends of deadpan. I was like, we're going to watch our auditions. Mine is up first because I thought mine's going to, mine's definitely going to be the worst one. I mean, obviously you got cast, but we have the remote right here. So we'll each pause whenever we have some kind of a note on it. So let's say I'm excited. Okay. Oh my God. Look at me. Oh Jesus. Hi. My name is Beljika Rodriguez. I'm 2510 and I'm auditioning for Erin. Okay. Hair flex. It's like my hair is long. Oh that. Oh nice. It's just kind of blurry, but okay. But that's a good one. I'm, we'll see mine. Okay. Hey, it's night time here. No pressure or anything. Just something totally impossible. I look so absolutely angry. It's giving corny Kardashian right now. I'm just like, why did you invite me here? I love it though. It's just like, it looks so incredibly angry. And this is a commercial. And in pretty much every single commercial ever, the energy is bright and high because they want you to be like, Oh, if I get this, it's going to solve my problems and I'm going to be so happy. Yeah. You know, so you don't want somebody scolding you. I know. So bad. Oh no. Cool. We can do Jell-O shots and play volleyball. I'm getting a real serial killer vibe on this one. Gross. Does it have plumbing? Is that a hair salon? Right. Who are you? Your wedding venue. Yeah. That was beautiful. She's like, wow, I hated your wedding. I wasn't invited for a birthday party. I love it. That's the one. Okay. This is running long. I need to finish the meeting in the car. You really think people are going to go dancing? Who? Who goes to a product launch and thinks, Oh, I can't wait to start dancing and to the Cupid shuffle. Hi, we have a delivery scheduled for later and the address has changed. Yep. We needed all rerouted. Oh my God. Yep. Yep. This is what I just told you personally on the phone. That is hilarious. I can see that I've tried to do dead paneling at certain moments. I'm like, okay, that's almost there. But for the most part, it just reads as somebody who's just so angry, hates everything, gives a little bit of sarcasm. Seeing that, if I was a casting director or associate, I would book you for like angry homecoming queen or like Bridezilla. I would love to play Bridezilla. Like that was absolutely like, sure, I love this venue. Let's get white tablecloths while we're at it. That was my audition. Oh my gosh. Okay. And I just, I wish I could do it again. In the actual final product, was there anybody who was deadpan? No, so I was going to say, I was going to mention that like after we watched these that I think they realized maybe from everyone's tape. So like, this is mean. This is because I, you'll see, you'll see in the final product. So this is what's fun. Like you're seeing her tape, you're seeing my tape and you see like what actually made it to your screens. In retrospect, if I knew that, you know, they might change their mind from, for the direction of this commercial, I would have sent in one like I tried and then one more friendly and understanding and warm because that's usually what these tech commercials are like. Cause this is some kind of tech that people can buy for their, their companies. Let's watch your audition. I will prep its mind by saying, like I said, I only, I haven't watched this whole thing in forever, so I'm sorry you guys, but it, it for me, for my brand of, of comedy, it feels so mean. Addage that everybody tells actors, like all of your coaches will say, like, don't do what you think they want. Do it the way you're going to do it. So I did it in my way. So mine is more sarcastic. Like guys, I'm tired. She's supposed to be jet lag. She's supposed to be like, um, I think like on the day they're like, Oh, she's video facing like you guys from the Philippines. Oh yeah. So it was like a time difference. And so she's tired. And so I took that. And it was just like, I'm just going to go more sarcastic and not like, we're in bubbly and like, okay. All right. Here we go. Jenner for McNeil. Five, six, reading for Aaron. Can you tell I don't have room to move around? Well, like I'm like packed in. Oh, here we go. Yes. Okay. Hey, it's nighttime here. Yeah. No problem. I mean, just completely impossible. So. Yay. Yours is already so much better. Even though it is like pretty like not angry, not angry, but, but like not super friendly. You know, you're just like, this is more of like theatrical acting versus commercial acting where it's like so bubbly and bright, but your acting is just so believable. You know, that's why I was like, oh, okay. I see. Even though you said, make it your own, make it your own. Like sarcasm. Just like, yeah. Okay. But like I just played on that she's tired. Like we were tired and you don't even bother like just make a decision. Like how hard can it be to pick a venue you guys and obviously. Yeah. Like your objective was to get off the call. Yeah. Okay. Here we go. No. Hate the carpet. Cool wallpaper though, but that carpet is atrocious. No. Stairs. Not accessible. Really guys? Inconsider it. Come on. Okay. This is something. And I never want to see it again. Guys, look at this one. We can play beach volleyball. Wait. Did you improv a bunch of these lines? Yeah. Yeah. Like they told me to improv. I did not have a script. They were just like one has no bathroom and I think that was it because I think we both say that there's no bathroom in one, but like I just was straight up improving. So look at you. I don't remember that. I'll have to look back at my other video where I was getting coaching, but I thought I had the lines. Cause what Timothy was doing was he was feeding me the lines of the other people on the zoom call. Yeah. Let's do it. I mean, we want to be on the news, right? Yeah. Live big. No. That's not. Okay. That's a parking garage. Interesting concept. Not for this. Not for this. No. Guys. We cannot have a launch with thousands of attendees and have no bathroom. Some of you live alone and it shows. What does that mean? I don't know, but it's a bird. Sick bird. No. Do you really think that people aren't going to want to come here and dance? Like, what have you ever been at a launch and like, oh dance floor. Let me get to shaking. Okay. Wait. This one I don't hate. I don't hate it. Put it in the baby. Put it in the baby. Stop. That's it. I love that. I love this. This is nice. Look at that. The lighting. Right. Yeah. This is it. This is the one. Let's book that. Yep. Let's get that. Yep. Nope. It's fine. Book it. Does it have a bathroom? Does it have a ramp? Okay. Boom. Park it. Yes. Book it. Love it. I'm going to finish this meeting in my car. Okay. So hang on. I'll be back. Oh, so then here's the phone part. Hi. Yeah. We have a delivery. Sorry. We have a delivery. Wait. Leave your mistakes in. I was going to say. Don't leave them in. They're great. I always mess up on stuff and I'm like, and then like on the times I like stop it and then I like play it. I'm like, oh, I know it was on a roll. Yeah. Take a breath. Keep going. And good. And you left it in. And it makes it to the final cut spoiler. Oh, oh. Look at that. She is still holding a little belt. I'm getting a lesson. I thought I was just inviting a friend over to laugh at ourselves from years ago. We'll mostly laugh at me. No, we're laughing at ourselves. This is, this is hilarious. In the commercial auditions that you get where they ask your question, like, tell me about your favorite vacation or whatever. If I mess up in those, I leave it in because I'm like, Oh, they just want to see what I'm like, what I talk like. You know, it's more natural if I just leave it in natural if I just leave it in versus having to say it again and like we can make sure you're saying it right robotic but um I really like it yeah you are a really good actor so that stuff works when you work you know like when you're showing your personality and you're talented also so dang dang okay talks like making an out she's not an epic talent oh you got hello you're on her channel you know you know okay didn't play your good sally humbleton over here scheduled later and the address has changed yep yeah rewrote yep whole order yeah yeah I can hold thank you okay wait pause I will say I feel like I'm channeling now I used to be a supervisor in college so I know how to direct things and then I also have bachelor's degree motion graphic design it was a freelance motion graphic designer for a long time so I know about being project lead and saying this needs to be executed why wasn't in here this needs to be here at the same time you know file hard drives need to be where they need to be and I shouldn't have to say that again so get it take what you know yes I'm learning so much this is like a master class yes oh that was all your audition and then here is the final product so there's there's like a three minute one and like a 50 second one or and easily communicate with whomever they need to however they need to which draws people to the stage and the dance floor no one dances at a product launch I'll be dancing hey I gotta run to the airport I'm gonna switch to my phone even when they're working across multiple time zones it always felt as if they were there together hey sorry I'm late with all the curveballs that we face at work hi we need to update the delivery address the one thing Jamie's team doesn't have to worry about is how they're going to bring all the right people together and when everyone can connect seamlessly anything is possible I would dance at a product launch just for the record I mean me too okay so this is the longer version oh my gosh so are there more characters in this no it's just the four of us so that's basically it I mean the first one yeah you get just gets to see what everybody else is doing but it you can see that it was scaled down a lot like the character like I didn't like write two minutes of improv and yourself tape and it got cut to like yeah a few you know maybe you guys each had like 10 15 seconds yeah we all were like on something and then that was it this was back in 2021 everybody was super nice but we didn't get to hang out then the actors until we took that picture and they was like okay separate you know it was like hold your breath smile do this little scene and that was it so like everybody was still separate but you know I got to be here and make up uh Tara shout out Tara we've worked on like three commercials now and she always has me looking fabulous do you think we should watch the long version oh we can let's see okay see what everybody else got pulled it off in four days you guys for a second I was like wait you you filmed this commercial in four days no it was all in one day very long day so that was our auditions those were our auditions so yeah definitely what they were looking for where they thought they were looking for in the casting call versus final product completely different I didn't see any deadpan in there no so I'm curious to know what happened probably just everybody's tapes were just like oh god this is too mean yeah um yeah the client probably saw all of them were like uh can we ask for another set of self tapes and casting was probably like no who do you like look at their reels it came out nice I love I like that it was nicer yeah I don't think anybody said anything about the deadpanness even I think I just showed up and did that and nobody said no so here we go so I don't think it was like outwardly what kind of direction did you get on set nothing you just because a lot of directors what they will do they'll just want to see what you have and then if they like it won't tell you much and if they want it differently then they'll be like hey how but we try it like this this time and then they'll be like okay we like that keep going with that I don't remember it was directed by Ty Barty hey Ty yeah so I just thought this would be fun to do like ourselves but even more fun to be able to share it with you guys because I've done this before where I show you myself tape versus who got booked so yeah let me know if you want us to do this in the future because we've auditioned for so many things we were rubbed by the same agency and often commercials will be like I don't know we want somebody of color we are people of color and if you want to hire us for your commercials independent work whatever you can contact Rosie at MDT for the San Francisco Bay Area or you can contact us directly and you can watch our reels right here yeah thanks you guys