In early 2008, during the Writers Strike, my dad took me to a meeting at the WGA theater in Beverly Hills. A new online network was being formed called StrikeTV. My dad decided to develop a show for this network and wanted me to not only cast it but to be an associate producer!
One of the episodes called for “2 hot girls in bathing suits”. It was a mock porn. Anyway, believe it or not I had trouble finding two girls that looked good in bathing suits that could also act. On audition day, I found two but they were both blondes and it was originally suggested that I find two girls with completely different looks.
A family friend, also an actress who appears in another episode of our show, recommended a young Canadian actress, a brunette. She sent me her pictures, resume and some links to some of her work. She looked like she would be perfect next to the girl I had already chosen. I sent her the script and she called me and said she was in!
Day of the shoot: Two hours after call time, she has yet to show up. My father had assembled a top notch crew, but time was a luxury we didn’t have with six episodes being shot in one weekend. With the clock ticking, I call her and she says, “I just can’t do this, I didn’t come to Los Angeles to do porn.”
I did my very best to explain to this girl that it was not actually porn, it was a faux porn. a spoof, a send-up. I said, “My father is here directing this, do you think he would have me here while shooting a porn! My dad has written huge Hollywood blockbuster movies, he doesn’t do porn!”
She seemed to understand and calmed down a bit and agreed to come. Another two hours passed by and still a no-show. I called her once again, this time she told me that her manager was against it and she just could not do it, then she begged me not to hold it against her and to keep her in mind for future projects. Because THAT was going to happen!
Luckily the other actress that I had auditioned was available and drove over immediately and saved the day.
I guess some things in Hollywood don’t change, strike, or no strike, big production, little production, what can go wrong usually does.
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