Here comes NY! There goes NY!

Time: June 5, 2005

Wowsers. I've only been in NY for two minutes and I can already feel it. That electricity in the air, that feeling that anything can and will happen if only you can dream it and work hard to achieve it. The feeling that this city is not for the weary, and that it will require you to give your best and nothing less. I just arrived to NYC from Paris, France, where I've been living for the past year. Funny thing happened a few days before I left town. My agent, Cindy Brace, called me with my first audition since I signed with her 6 months before. I had a feeling that was going to happen... right when I leave, I'm going to get an audition. And, it did. Unfortunately, the audition is scheduled for 2 days from now and there was no way I was going to postpone my entire move back to the U.S. for the preread.

Me: "Cindy, can I send them a tape when I get to NY?"
Cindy: "No, they're going to want to see you in person."

Well, that's the breaks, I guess. I'm not terribly disappointed because my schedule's already pretty full for my first week in NY. I'd signed up on Actor's Access while I was still in Paris, so I've already got an audition scheduled. Also, I'll be going by T. Schreiber Studios for an info session because I want to start training as soon as possible. That's the main reason why I'm here so I don't want to waste any time.

So, I'm taking care of business, getting set up in NY, and lo and behold, I get an email from my agent. It turns out, the director still wants to consider me for the role of "Cindy" in the five-part miniseries "Le Maitre du Zodiaque." Little did I know, this series was the second installation of last summer's most successful miniseries. The casting director requested that I send an audition tape of the two scenes she's provided in the next 2 days. I did, and soon after they received it, they requested that I return to Paris asap to meet with the director. As luck would have it, I flew the NYC to London to Paris route the same day that London suffered the terrorist bombings in the subways. Luckily I managed to arrive in Paris safe and sound and on time for my meeting with the director, Claude-Michel Rome. It was a great meeting and when I left Paris, I had a signed contract in hand and plans to return to Paris a month and a half later to begin shooting.

Wow, wow, wow. As I sat in awe in my seat on the long plane ride home I was reminded of something that had happened two years before. I was completing the oral portion of my French exam, and my French teacher asked me what I saw myself doing in 5 years. I thought for a moment and then responded in French:

"Je vais etre une actrice internationelle. Je vais tourner des filmes en anglais, francais et espagnol."

"I'm going to be an international actresss. I'm going to make films in English, French and Spanish."

My French teacher laughed then. And I'm laughing now and shaking my head at the wonder of it all. I'm on my way back to NYC and I'm on my way to realizing my dreams.