🎬🎬 #PopeyeTheSlayerman 2!! Can’t wait for you all to see what we made. Incredible cast, incredible crew - and even more blood, gore, and kills than the first. 🩸🩸🩸🩸 More have more BTS coming once the movie eventually drops, but for now here are a few sneak peeks that don’t give too much away. 💥💣
In @mercymovie for 1.5 seconds. On the escalator for a full storyline.
NYC premiere for #MercyMovie and my heel immediately chose chaos. It got stuck in the escalator, I laughed the entire time, while strangers politely tried not to laugh… until they realized I was fully cracking up too. @lovetricialee ’s shoe joined the storyline shortly after. RIP my @christianlouboutin - unclear if the heel needs to be 2mm thicker or @amctheatres needs to make the stairs 2mm wider. Even @constancewu cheered me on through the ordeal. Ten out of ten premiere experience 😅
This whole experience has been a journey. From booking my first feature film almost two years ago, to filming it, to waiting and wondering when it would be released - and if I would even make the final cut. From stepping onto set, getting my own tiny trailer, hair and makeup, going in for one scene and walking out having filmed two. Sitting with the writer on set, in the middle of the “red zone,” robot dogs walking past us, as he wrote my lines in real time. Feeling pure excitement, mixed with uncertainty, every step of the way.
This industry is not for the faint of heart. So much of the work happens quietly, behind the scenes, and so much of it goes unseen - the hundreds of auditions a year, the pins, the avails, the callbacks that feel monumental in the moment and then disappear into a black hole. The near-misses, the almosts, the “maybe next times.”
My role may be small - blink and you might miss me - but I soaked in every single second of this experience. And I can’t wait to share a little BTS, the details, and the moments that meant everything to me.
It might look like a little win from the outside, but to me, it’s one booking of many to come, in a career that’s a lifelong pursuit - all while working a full-time corporate job 🙃
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