Auditions 2: Electric Boogaloo

I called my manager this afternoon, to see if there was any news from my auditions.
“Hi, it’s Wil Wheaton for Chris,” I told the receptionist.
Chris immediately picked up the phone. “This is so weird. I just told Hank to put you on my list to call.”
Hearing this didn’t surprise me. Things like this happen all the time. If I could translate this amazing psychic ability that I have for phone calls into slot machines or dice, I could have myself a Rainman Suite.
I asked him if he’d heard anything about I, Robot
“Yes!” He told me, his normally calm and reassuring voice filled with excitement. “The casting director called me twice today, because he was so excited to give me feedback about you!”
My heart began to pound, and I felt my face flush.
“What did he say?”
“He said, ‘Wil was really, really, really, fucking incredible!’ He was very happy with what you did, and told me that he was very impressed.”
I let out a girlish squeal. “Really?!”
“Yes. He said that you were phenomenal, and he sent your tape this morning.”
Chris told me that we haven’t heard anything about the other audition, but I didn’t care. Getting feedback this quickly, and this positive, hardly ever happens. The director will look at the tapes of all the actors who read yesterday, and he will read notes that the casting director has prepared to go with each performance. If this casting director was so excited to tell my manager how happy he was, that he called twice, I am confident that he presented me to the director with similar confidence and praise.
A year ago, I wouldn’t have even had this audition, let alone a real chance at making it into the movie.

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167 thoughts on “Auditions 2: Electric Boogaloo”

  1. Will Smith?! They are STILL giving him movie leads after MIB II? Actually, he was good in the Ali thing. My biggest dread about Will Smith in I, Robot is that they’ll let him record another one of his (c)rap songs to tack onto the sound track.

  2. Wil smith! That was the Empire article that I couldn’t find.
    It all becomes clear. As clear as it can on a staurday morning.
    Mojo has been sent although US Customs may put it in a field and blow it up first.
    If they do this I will send MORE and MOOOOORE.
    Nothing will stop you this time! The part is YOURS!!!
    Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahacoughahahacoughcough…..ahem….

  5. wow Im still trying to wrap my brain around them actually doing the I, Robot movie… Congrats Wil I hope everything goes this well for you in the future, we’re all rooting for you here in Jackson
    Have Fun!

  9. Good Luck Wil, I can’t wait to see you in a movie again. Actually, I can’t wait to see you in anything new again, it has been far too long for me.
    Keeping fingers crossed Wil gets the movie,
    Eppy

  13. YAY!!!
    This is some seriously fucking cool news, Wil!!
    *Happy Nekkid Otter Butt Dance* 😀
    *Get that Part MoJo!!!*

  14. Good things DO happen to good people. You WILL get the part! I’m sending positive energy, mojo, chi, whatever you call it…

  15. Girlish squeal… heh, that made me laugh out loud. I wish we could all have more of those moments that maks us let out a girlish squeal.
    But… :::slaps Wil::: now I’m going to have this SONG going through my head all day… It’s probably not even the right one, but I’m stuck with ‘we’re gonna rock on through Electric Avenue… and you can take me higher…”
    Cripes, I probably even have the lyrics wrong.
    Getting old sucks.
    :::boyish snort:::

  18. w00t!
    Congratulations! Will be hoping and sending the “bag the gig, baby” mojo for ya! 🙂

  19. That’s GREAT, Wil! You know, I had always wanted to be a child actor, but by the time I moved anywhere where I could do something, I was too old. Well, at least I was an extra in a Sally Field movie.

  25. You know Wil like others have said if you don’t get the part we are still all so proud of you just like you should be of yourself. I think that part of this feeling and perhaps even the praise from the casting director is all based on attitude. Like you have said before you were so wrapped up in getting the part, counting on it as if it were everything. Now you are back into it for the fun quality, your attitude is more relaxed, at ease, and I think that comes through in your audition. Perhaps I am way off key, but it is a thought. I know things have gone better for me when my outlook has been more laid back and relaxed.

  28. *girlish squeal*
    I am so excited for you my face is splitting with an enormous smile!
    *Does the dance of geekish joy* Go Willy… go Willy… go go, go Willy!

  29. Great stuff, Wil.
    What’s a bit wierd to me about this is the feeling like I’m excited about a friend of mine who just got some good news. The writing you share on your site, the *you* you share on here, is really honest and that makes it inspiring. As a positive side-effect, I feel a little bit like I know you, and connection like that always makes me feel good, no matter who the other person is.
    I remember a job interview I had once (actually a series of 5 interviews, the last three of which included no less than 3 lawyers each) where I just reached a place inside where I *knew* they were hiring a person, not a set of credentials. All the bullshit fell away at that point and I spoke with calm and honesty. It was a pretty cool experience, and totally unlike anything else I’d done to that point. I did get the job, but honestly, the payoff was in the process, not the result.
    Congratulations, sincerely.
    -Pat

  30. Good things come in 3’s
    I bet you get more good news soon 😀
    Congrats, you deserve this.

  31. “A year ago, I wouldn’t have even had this audition, let alone a real chance at making it into the movie.”
    Why not?

  35. Wil, you were “really, really, really fucking incredible” 15 years ago, and that’s something you don’t lose over time. It’s like riding a bike. What does change is perspective, and that it shaped by the exogenous forces, the dick producers, the idiotic fans, all those negative forces that attempt to erode the morale of an actor. Your ability never waned, it was just beset by adversity borne out of the ignorance of others. It appears the tides are turning in your favor. Turn this spark into a flame. Go get ’em, Wil!

  37. ( Cue: My first girlish squeal of the day). There you go. Good news after only 24 hours? Hell yes!

  44. That is awsome Will I am a new reader of your site but have been completly consumed by it. I think that it is odd that I feel such a connection to you throught your site. Everyday I go to your site and check to see what has happened. But anyway what I am trying to say is that I wish you the best of luck and I am happy for you.
    Peace

  46. Hi Wil,
    Sending over lots of good thoughts for you…
    I’m curious if you can pinpoint what is different from one year ago that makes this audition possible today? I think that Aaron and others who have already posted are probably right on… but I’m wondering if you think it might be something else, too…
    -Jocelyn

  47. YAY!
    I can see it now: A battle of the Wil(l)’s… who can attract more female fans? 😉
    Hehe.
    But seriously, that’s awesome. As an aspiring author, I have enormous respect for Asimov. It must be amazing to have the possiblity of making one of his works come alive for millions more people…

  48. More mojo coming your way from the other side of town. No one deserves it more than you. Just don’t forget us monkeys when you are on the “A” list again. 🙂

  49. Quick, somebody grab all of Jimmy Kimmel’s cousins and keep them from auditioning!

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