PERFECT TIMING

Met another Casting Director, great guy, an East Coaster so of course, I like him. I almost blow it when he starts talking about the Super Bowl and his friends calling him from NY, (He’s from Boston) to rub his nose in it, and that he got like 40 drunk dials from one friend of his and I reply: “Oh, it was a booty call”. The temperature in the room drops like 12 degrees and he goes, “no, it was a guy” (Okay, does not like gay jokes, got it) so I laugh and go, “My bad, when I get 40 drunk dials it’s always a booty call”. Which made everyone laugh. Whoo. Then he and I do a one-on-one interview, and we’re chatting and I’m trying to be funny and still be snarky, and keep things light and we get to talking about sketch and he says “you seem like comedy is more your style” and I tell him that yeah, it sorta is, but funny thing, I trained for years to be a Shakespearean actor! And he says how he could totally see me playing Kate in “Taming of the Shrew” and then quotes this line to me: With my tongue in your tail? Nay, good Kate, I am a gentleman” To which I REPLIED, on the spot: “No gentleman sir, if your tongue be in my tail.” Neither of which are the actual lines but the point is this: we both thought they were! And it sounded right! Well played sirrah well played.