Ticket to Hollywood

Life is full of fun once you know what to do with it. I was living a normal life until I watched something!

It was Sunday evening when I had completed all of my homework and was totally free. Then I decided to watch some TV, even though I was not so interested. As I was changing the channels, I found a Hollywood talk show. It seemed boring at first but later I found myself interested in it. It was about movie stars and celebrities. At the very first moment I knew, I had my aim. The show inspired me so much that the whole day I was stuck in front of the television watching different talk shows and movies.

I decided to be an actor but my parents wanted me to be an engineer. I was still a teenager and completely depended on them, so I had to do everything sneakily. I joined theatre classes and I sent my portfolio to different casting directors. I attended many auditions and I succeeded at most of them but couldn't carry on because of my parents and my exams.

I knew that my parents and exams would be a big obstacle for my dreams and goals but this wasn't a big problem. I was not worried about that but about the thousands of people trying their luck on the film industry. Most of them come back without making it. These thoughts were driving me crazy. Life was tough but I was tougher. Despite of all the difficulties, I managed to play a role in a commercial. That was not my biggest victory. The happiest thing about it was that my parents were no more against my ambition.

One day I received a call from a casting director, the one I had sent my portfolio and a video clip of my CV. He said he was going to cast me on a historical TV series. The difficult part about it was that my audition iswas in Los Angeles, California. I was happy and shocked at the same time. How could I go that far? So many things were circling my mind, the most important of them being how could I get ticket to Hollywood?

If you want to find out whether I got my ticket to Hollywood or not... you have to wait for the next issue of Migratory Birds.