Lights, Camera, and Action!

So, you might wonder who this is. No, it's not me. It's this other Asian kid I know from the school. It's hard to explain this photo in a few sentences so here's the story.

Our Spanish teacher works as an actress. Her friend (who happens to be an executive producer or whatever) needed to have Asians for a commercial that they were going to take. So, the teacher gave my friend and me the phone number to call the company. We called, and this person told us to come visit that afternoon to try out for it, and so we did. They first took pictures of us in different angles and we had to do different kinds of faces. Then, they recorded a video where we had to say a short speech introducing ourselves. It was kind of weird since we were in a typical room where the background is completely white and all the lights are pointed towards you. But, we managed to do it and they told us that they were going to call us if we were chosen. Since they didn't call me afterward, I just forgot about it later on.

About two weeks later, right after coming back from a lovely trip on Holy Week, I received a phone call right when I was getting off the plane. My friend and I were chosen to be two of the four people that were going to come out in the commercial. Of course, we were very happy. We skipped a full Wednesday of school just to go to the commercial. We were even happier now.

So, we went to the place we had to go to. The other two actors were another Korean guy like us and a Vietnamese woman. We asked the director what we had to do for the commercial. To put it short, we all ended up acting as Chinese people and the commercial was about China entering the World Cup for their first time. But, it didn't matter that none of us were Chinese since all Asians look the same with their funny little eyes (that was sarcasm by the way). And, I had to act as a typical guy on the streets in China, holding a long wooden pole with two buckets at the ends full of vegetables. Let's just say it was interesting.

Anyway, we at least got paid well. So, this is a photo I took when my friend was about to start the scene he had to do. I just felt like sharing.