Since my stint as Tom Cruise, I’ve pretty much completely dived into to working with the Austin Movie Show. Not only do I help pitch ideas, write and perform, but I also help out producing the live show every Sunday night. It’s taking a lot of my time but it’s been really great coming up with ideas and pitching them to the group, and they seem to be well received. Last night we filmed my idea called “Good Actor? Bad Choice!” which will be a recurring bit about actors auditioning for roles for which they are completely wrong. When I pitched the idea, the specific example was Christopher Walken. At the time I did a passable Walken, but I figured we would get someone else who could nail it. After receiving a very good response from the group over the next week, we decided to film it with me doing my Walken. I worked my ass off trying to perfect it as I wanted it to be perfect. Before filming last night, I did nothing but work on my Walken impression for three hours. By the time I left the house, I felt very good about it. Not perfect, but hopefully funny enough to overlook that fact.
We were kind of pressed for time so I pretty much only got one take for each of the three fake auditions I had come up with, and while I don’t feel I was quite as good as I could have been given a few more takes, hopefully it was passable. The crew all seemed to be having a hard time containing their laughter behind the camera, so that’s a good sign. I did Walken auditioning for Inigo Montoya in “The Princess Bride”, Milton in “Office Space”, and Harry in “When Harry Met Sally.” I’m working on getting copies of the tom Cruise bit and this one to get online for you all to see. The Tom Cruise bit can be seen if you check out this show via podcast. I’m not sure of the exact time where it appears so you’ll have to find it in the show. I know it was right after the Jason Reitman interview, which led to some awkwardness as detailed in my article which no longer seems to be online.
