Be Careful What You Wish For

Wishing in and of itself is good, it keeps the dream alive and the hopes intact.

Getting a dream is a whole other ballpark.

It was easy to dream of my son someday getting lots of auditions or big auditions, the reality is exhausting.

I can't really delve into what he's been auditioning for because you never want to count your chicks before they hatch, but the reality is that we have been going up to LA from San Diego on a very consistent basis.

His new agent is worlds more proactive than his last and she has us hop, hop, hopping in the hopes that these auditions will pay off.

I can say that one of my son's recent auditions was for a lead part in a FF and if he got it, well it would be astronomically great for him and his career.

It just so happens that the film also stars one of his favorite actors which is just like icing on the top of the already creamy and delicious cake.

It's surreal but I can actually kind of see now that my darling son could actually make a career out of this instead of just a hobby like the background gigs.

Don't get me wrong, I am in no way knocking the background gigs, they are the reason my son got his first movie screen credit and his tiny little foot in the door.

In fact I would highly recommend that if you have a child who thinks they want to act, that you do go the background route for a littel while. It gave my son the experience of being on a set and learning to work with actors, directors and crew.

It also showed me that even at the young age of 7 years old, that he was serious about wanting to do this.

He's gone from project to project setting himself different goals...ie wanting to do a commercial, wanting to have lines, wanting to be in a movie, wanting to be on a TV show, wanting to play something scary...and the list goes on and on.

I have a hard time getting him to remember his phone number and address, but give him a monologue or a script and he will memorize every line...including the other actors!

There's a lot of promise looming on the horizon for him right now, still some of the best advice I have received thus far is to audition and move on.

If we get a call back great...if not we'll probably already have auditioned for and booked another job.

When the part is right for him, it will be his...until then it was someone else's golden opportunity.

Oh and my son's next lofty goal...he want's to win an Oscar. I told him to go for it but maybe file it under one of his long term goals.

~Juana