Actor Meme!

[killsfengshui.livejournal.com]

It's Transmigration 9 Studios. No, the name doesn't make any sense, except that the owner, Stacy, has owned eight studios before this and they've all crashed and burned. Which feels so great for the actors and their sense of job security, let me tell you.

As soon as they're done with their scenes, the characters stop playing their roles and make it real. The scripts are tossed aside, and they can relax now that the cameras are off of them.

What does this mean? Well, perhaps Billy is an actual college graduate, who is disgusted with the scientific inaccuracies and techspeak mumbo-jumbo of his character. Perhaps Kang is a fit Japanese man in a rubber dragon suit. Maybe Renne is a former theater actor that speaks with a posh English accent? Who knows, perhaps Nehaa is a conservative Catholic who finds her role as a stripperiffic space goat horrifying! And it might an ongoing joke off-screen that Leon can't fight for shit, Steve's actor stands in for him during action scenes.

Just roll with it, guys, it's better than my first idea of the night.

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[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

"Where the fuck is that cup of coffee I asked for?"

Hiccup's actor was a child actor who'd first gained his fame while acting the main role of a popular adaptation of a best-selling series of children's novels. He was popular. He was a money-bringer. He helped attract quite a few people from a younger demographic to the show.

That's the only reason people put up with his shit.

He'd tried after that, to take on more serious roles, but here he was, now 18, pigeonholed in a fur vest, playing some dragon-riding pussy that kept getting his ass handed to him.

Lighting up a cigarette, he stumbled towards his seat, and sat up with his leg extended.

"And somebody get the cripple getup off my leg. I can't stand this goddamn thing. I'm not the fucking Tin Man here."

[mynameis-jake.livejournal.com]

Jake's actor, on the complete other hand, was a young teen whose career was just kicking off. This was the first thing he'd ever done that was bigger than a toilet paper commercial (national, mind, it was a toilet paper commercial on national television), and his boundless enthusiasm for the work was a strange, resilient thing that clung on in the face of all obstacle and reason. Like a barnacle.

One of the things he clung to was his admiration of his childhood idol, the very actor who'd inspired him to get into the business in the first place. How cool was it that they got to act together? Today, as with the day before, he ran up to his hero as soon as film stopped rolling. "That was great, huh?" he said cheerfully. "Great job with the, you know, the big scene! It was just like that time in movie 5 where you went down into the tunnels and you had to fight off all the goblins by yourself!!" Jake sometimes had trouble separating his favorite actor from the role he once played.

"Isn't anyone getting you your coffee? Hey, I know, I'll go grab some for you. Just let me get this old man stuff off my face first." Jake had to work hard to sell himself as a 16-year-old on set, but the makeup team worked even harder. Luckily, he'd always been tall for his age. "Cream and sugar, right?"

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

For a moment, he just stared. What had he done to deserve having to put up with this bullshit?

Then he rolled his eyes. "Cream, two sugars. None of that Splenda crap."

[mynameis-jake.livejournal.com]

"Cream and two Splenda. No, wait, cream and two sugars. Got it!" The kid ran off in the direction of the makeup trailer, but before he'd gotten a few steps, he stopped in his tracks. "By the way..." He turned, a reproachful look coming over his face. "You shouldn't smoke! You'll get wrinkly and yellow, and what kind of roles would you play then?"

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

He blew out smoke.

"Maybe a role where I'm actually old enough to legally bang some broad. That'd be nice."

He was eighteen for fuck's sakes, and they had him playing a baby-faced fifteen-year-old.

[mynameis-jake.livejournal.com]

He actually stopped to consider this. Then shook his head. "Nah, girls don't like smokers. It's true. Plus haven't you seen those pictures in health class of where you get like that hole in your throat? Gross!" That was one image that would never leave his mind.

"Anyway, Hiccup's so great! You get to hang out with a dragon and do fun stuff. Older characters are way too serious." Yeah, he was pretty bored of that.

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

"Nice girls don't like smokers. The kind of girl that lacks a gag reflex on the other hand doesn't usually give a shit."

Cigarettes did nothing to change the fact that he was pretty much swimming in ass.

"And I don't get to hang out with a dragon, I get to hang out with a guy in an animatronic rig. Whoop de doo."

[governorkang]

"Oh, shut up. You should be grateful you don't have to deal with these goddamn wings," Kang's actor groused, taking the head off of his suit and tossing it to the side. "Half the time, they don't even fucking work properly."

Despite his extreme dislike for the kid, he never told his little girls at home about what an absolute dick he was. They wouldn't believe him anyways.

He'd been a model, once, but he'd proven to be a fairly talented actor playing bit parts in a couple of movies, and his experience with suits had led him to getting his current role. He was called in often for the monster and giant robot roles as well, being the most experienced suit actor in the cast.

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

The bird was casually flipped his way.

"Was I talking to you?"