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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[for-magic.livejournal.com]

"I don't understand my damn motivation," Aibghalien said, tossing down the staff the moment the cameras cut out. "Blow myself up, blow myself up, blow myself up, seriously, what the hell."

He dug into his robes, produced a cigar, and quickly lit it to take a sanity-restoring gag. "I should have signed up for that whatsit movie, with the... Hogwarts and things. Could've at least worked with Alan Rickman. Better than THIS crowd."

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

"Like, bro? Don't even get me started."

First thing Tavros does is stand up and kick the chair away from him.

"CAN WE GET A PROP GUY IN HERE ALREADY? Anyway. Shut up. At least you get to do sparkly magic crap, okay?" He crosses his eyes and pulls a stupid face. "Uhhhhm, I'm Tavros, and ummm, I get a perfect ass-eye-view of everyone all day, uhhhhhhhhhh, and I don't know how to say sentences even though, duhhhh, I'm thirteen."

Angryface.

"Seriously. I'd fire my agent, but she's my mom."

[potentialmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Hey, food guy. Tacos, por favor." Ron calls out.

"Guys, If you hate it that much, just get yourself written out. It's not like it's really all that difficult."

[for-magic.livejournal.com]

"Magic! Pfah. Standing in front of a green screen waving my hands. Years! All those years in Julliard so my best scenes can lie on the cutting room floor, to showcase more of this graphical spectacle."

He looked sour for a moment. Someone better damn well get him a taco and a flask now.

"Written out? I couldn't do that. It wouldn't be professional."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

The intern in the minion suit set the hilariously fake dummy book down to go get a drink.

They'd CGI the full effects in later.

[alterniantaurus.livejournal.com]

"Oh god, here we go. 'Bluhbluhbluh, classically trained at places fulla dudes so old they fart dust,' like that stuff even matters in the days of Youtube and autotune."

Tavros tosses the horns aside and peels off the wig. Messy blonde curls. Messy blonde curls everywhere.

"Face it, you couldn't hack it at Cambridge or whatever and crawled into the first studio that'd crack the door. And you," looking at Ron now, "should try dealing with my 'agent' before making suggestions like that. I'd like to see my eighteenth birthday, okay."

[potentialmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Hey, was just a suggestion." Ron replied. "Anyways, see you guys tomorrow. I'm gonna go find Jason."

hope starting another group is ok >.>

[morphitudinous]

As for Billy's actor? The moment the camera shut off he ditched the glasses, retreated from the set, and picked up the next script.

"What on earth? Excuse me, director, but I was hoping we could discuss alternate character development. I feel that I'm being pigen-holed into a perpetual victim role, never allowing Billy to grow beyond his insecurities. Isn't that unfair?"

No, the director proceeded to argue, it was certainly not unfair.

"Right. My character will be repodded and I will be sent to a 'peace conference' if I would rather reject my employment for the sake of dignity. Understood, sir."

And Billy is just going to withdraw, miserably passing out drinks to the other actors as 'punishment'. At least it's not legal to dissect and reassemble him...he thinks. How had that been cleared for screen, anyway?

"You ok?" he'd ask to the actors he'd come across, as he always did.

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"I'm all right," Miku's actress assured Billy. "Did you get the new script? They want me to run even slower." She sighed, "My personal trainer is going to have my ass in a sling if I keep slowing down."

She fluffed her hair. "What about you? What got you stuck on server duty?"

[morphitudinous]

"That's been a problem already, right?" 'Billy' shook his head. "Are they being hard on Steve too?"

He flashed her a weary smile. "I argued with the producers over Billy's role. They assured me in excruciating detail that I am easily replaceable. I'll just have to stick it out for another while longer."

Life didn't pay for itself, and this wasn't too bad, he supposed.

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"Not so much, our story arc for the season is just about over. I just... couldn't run slow enough. I thought I did pretty well, though, pretending that PVC gun was as heavy as it was supposed to be." Miku grinned. "Anyway, don't beat yourself up over it too much. We're here to do something fun, aren't we? Producers are here to make money, so of course they're going to be grumpy."

'Miku' nibbled her lip for a moment, "Just roll with the punches for a little longer, it'll all work out." Which, incidentally had landed her the role in the first place. The other girls who had been cast had just fallen flat, or landed in trouble. It was easy to shoe herself in after that, wasn't it.

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Big!Einhart sighed as Bitty!Einhart waved over to her from her spot off stage.

"Wow! You're being so awesome at that!" Bitty!Einhart said the older actress headed off the stage.

"Yeah, sure. Hopefully they'll give me a scene when I'm NOT fighting Vivio soon. I mean, really? How many training scenes do we need anyway!" Big!Einhart shouted as she went over to go get some food.

Bitty!Einhart blushed. "I... not sure. But at least they didn't have you doing what they had me do!"

Ah yes, Bitty!Einhart was still all "EWWW" about that kiss with the younger Vivio actress.

[for-magic.livejournal.com]

"I LIKE acting!" Aibghalien sputtered. "It was my dream as a youth!"

[neverwastenaya.livejournal.com]

Tenaya's actress, however, spotted the Einharts as they came closer to the food cart.

"Hey!" she cried, bouncing over to give the both of them a big hug. "Awesome job with all the Vivio stuff, though I don't know why the director's so big on all this girly love stuff. I mean--no offense, sweetie--but you're too little to be worrying about all that. Am I right?"

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Bitty!Einhart smiled. "Oh, hi!"

And then she frowned a made a disgusted face. "Yeah! I know! I mean... eww. I don't even want a boyfriend either, so ick."

Big!Einhart just shook her head and hugged the other girl back. "Yeah, it's... really annoying. At the very least, they could at least let ME do those scenes. Give me more work to do besides being in the rubber alien suits whenever they need a random alien around."

[neverwastenaya.livejournal.com]

"Oh, tell me about it," Tenaya complained, waving her hand around. "I keep saying, 'Okay, where am I supposed to be with this whole Strike Team thing?' and it's all 'Oh, Tenaya's at the Venjix Palace in the middle of this.' Please. I'm starting to think all they need me for is to look pretty when everyone else is busy."

She flipped a lock of hair over her shoulder for emphasis.

"Probably why they decided I should be a robot girl, not just a regular girl. I don't mind being eyecandy, but really? Am I only here for all the drooling nerdy boys out there?"

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Big!Einhart laughed at that. "Apparently. Then again, that seems to be the only reason why Einhart even as the Adult form transformation also, so they can get more fanservice. I mean, it's not like I'm getting to do much."

Bitty!Einhart shook her head. "You know what, they made too many characters! Way too many importantish ones!"

[neverwastenaya.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I have no idea where they're going with the direction here," Tenaya agreed. "Sometimes it's all on the adults. Sometimes it's all on the kids because they're cute. And sometimes it's all for fighting or for romance and fanservice. All just to cover up the fact that the rest of the script sucks. I mean, really. I know sci-fi panders, but do the writers even know where they're going with all this? 'Cause I sure don't."

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Big!Einhart shook her head. "Doubt it. They're probably just going with whatever they can get away with."

Bitty!Einhart made another disgusted face. "I hope they get yelled at some more about that kiss with Vivio."

[neverwastenaya.livejournal.com]

Tenaya grinned. "They heard a lot about that one, all right. Serves them right, pulling that kind of thing with kids. They went nuts with all the kid kissing. Leave it to the grown-ups."

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Bitty!Einhart nodded. "Anyway, I'm going to go find some of the other kids now. Later!"

And with that, Bitty!Einhart ran off.

Big!Einhart grinned. "Yeah, really. Oh well, they shouldn't be doing that crap again, right?"

[fulltinyalchemy.livejournal.com]

"At least you're getting screen time," grumbled Ed as he leaned up against the counter. "I was called out here for a possibility and BOOM, no I've been replaced by that Tennyson guy again."

It was no secret that Ed's actor and Ben's actor had a rivalry. They were two veteran TV actors who were chosen for bit roles.

[neverwastenaya.livejournal.com]

"No, they'll just leave it to the rest of us when the ratings drop again," Tenaya answered, rolling her eyes. "Always the girls, you notice? Ratings drop, you throw in hints that the girls aren't straight. This is the third show I've been on that did this."

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart frowned. "I... see. But they've always had some of the girls not be straight. Like say, Nanoha."

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

"Maybe so, but it's not enough," Big!Einhart said. "I mean, I know this is only for fight scenes, but couldn't they have let me get in on some of them? I've had one that wasn't training, and it was STILL against Vivio. It's like Einhart only exists in relation to Vivio!"