I got called by a student producer at USC yesterday to see if I could very-last-minute play a part in her short film today because she lost one of her actresses (?) and I guess she remembered my audition for another one of her films back in October and thought I could do the part well.
So of course I did it, and the part I was going to play was the nurse. I was really excited about playing the nurse because I'd never played a nurse in a movie before, and when I got there they had brand new scrubs for me that looked really cute actually. But what's funny is that after I was done changing into them in the bathroom on the first level, I headed back to the elevator to go back to the third level where they were shooting, and it just so happened one of the principal actors I'd never met before had just walked into the building.
So we walked into the elevator together, and he was cute and looking all actor-y holding his wardrobe, and he's like, "It's the third floor right?" I'm like, "Yeah." Then he notices my scrubs and is like, "Are you the new nurse?"
AHHHHHHHH ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I just had to share this story because in that moment, in the elevator of that hospital, standing next to this guy with my scrubs, I really felt like I really was "the new nurse" like in an actual way, and that this cute doctor guy (he wasn't even playing a doctor, he was playing a visitor to a patient, but anyways) this cute doctor guy was asking me if I was the new nurse, and I had this vision that we were going to start talking and like really hit it off or something.
THIS IS BECAUSE I'M WATCHING TOO MUCH MINDY PROJECT. I watched a bunch of episodes on hulu and decided I liked it enough to start getting the Season 1 discs on Netflix. But yeah, she's a doctor and always has an inner monologue going on about the men around her, and she's always having cute encounters in the elevator, so yeah. That was my acting experience today that felt somewhat real for a moment, (or at least like I was on The Mindy Project.)
