David Chiu

Ready to Tanqueray? I sure was when I showed up at the casting studio dressed in my shirt, tie and trendy sport jacket. The audition was easy - “pretend you’re at the most fabulous party in Antarctica listening to a musician play Christmas music using wine glasses”. It’s one of those auditions where it’s all about your luck look. We’ll see if the ad agency thinks I would “fit” the commercial.

I also got called last second for an IBM print ad. They were looking for a professional looking IT person who also looks good wearing boxing gloves. They took 3 pictures and a three minute video interview of each person. I’d hate to be the person who has to go through all that material for 50+ poeple!

Last Friday H and I went to a screening party to view some footage from the indie movie “Mah Jong” where I play the character of “Manny” - a wanna be gambler and hustler who drags the main character back into the world of gambling. The footage looked great and I was happy to see that I did a pretty decent job acting wise especially in my last few scenes. Can’t wait to see the final cut!

Saturday we continued shooting scenes for the comedy pilot “Jake Off”. This time we used my garage and surrounding streets as locations. It was a lot of fun that lasted from 9am - 12.30pm. The hidef footage looks really, really good and we only have a couple more scenes to shoot.

I’m back at the acting studio again! I’m now taking a scene study class and working on a scene from the play Doubt. It’s a really tough scene but I’ve already learned a lot from the past four classes. This class is something I really needed to continue growing as an actor.

On another note, my laptop hard drive crashed HARD. I’m now frantically trying to recover as much data as possible. Luckily I backed up my drive a couple months ago and also saved all my important editing projects to external drives. The lesson I learned: regularly BACKUP your hard drive!!!!