I have never really been involved in pilot season yet. Apart from a few web series that like to appear bigger than they are by calling themselves "pilots", I have never tested for a series regular role. I'm inching my way upward, but I have yet to read opposite the lead in a big star vehicle in front of a room full of network executives. Pilot season has still remained this mythical thing that I'm vaguely aware is happening around me, but only in rooms they won't let me into...or dark alleys or hidden passages or something.
That is... until this year. While I'm not at the testing stage, I'm inching ever closer. This year I'm actually getting to read for series regular roles. Granted it's not many, and it's not in the room. My agent and I have managed to get a couple opportunities to put myself on tape so he can send it to casting and beg them to take a look. It's not much, and it's still a long shot (let's be honest, when is it not??) but it's closer than I've ever been before. I am working with the same material the actors going in, performing the same scenes and my tape is getting in the hands of casting at the same time they are holding the sessions. We haven't had any big bites yet, but my agent and I are optimistic that something will hit.
Other than that craziness.... it's been a whirlwind of smaller auditions, callbacks, two short film shoots, a co-star being weird and trying to kiss me in rehearsal (not in the script), a great director saying "we've got plans for you", workshops, the saving grace of a residual check, and that constant feeling in the gut of my stomach that something is about to happen in a very big way.
And this is just January.
Welcome to pilot season :)
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