Wait a second. Did he just say tobacconist!?!? What the hell does he mean. Well my smoking jacket wearing friends, let me tell you. This weekend I was lucky enough to get to work on a wonderful short film here in Roswell, New Mexico, USA. I was brought on as an acting coach and worked with the director and actors to help the acting stay as close to the directors intention as possible.
But a funny thing happened on the movie set. One of the characters in the movie was required to smoke a ciggarette and then flick it at the camera. Problem was...he never even held a cancer stick before, let alone tossed one. So, as the guy outside smoking, I was naturally asked to become the smoking coach. During the shoot, we went through more then a pack of ciggarettes trying to film a scene that will probably end up about 2 minutes max on the screen.
I don't know how many films hire a tobacconist, and I am sure I am not the first, but, I have to say, it is the pinnacle of my movie career to date. Give me my Oscar, you Hollywood curs!!!
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NO COMMENTS!! I can't beleive there's NO COMMENTS! No one wrote just to say you spelled cigarette wrong?!
Nope...but you just answered the question of how many words I need to spell wrong to elicit a response!
You always mispell words. I don't bother to correct you.
Of course, I am deeply envious of any tobacco related job/performance you may have. Hey in 20 or 30 years, we could probably set up a smokers' consulting firm to teach people the fine art of lighting up, said practice sure to have been illegal for many years by then.
Well, that's more like it.
And I found this post in the Guardian's blog on smoking on stage:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/04/27/thank_you_for_s.html
"Actors must also learn the lost art of how to hold, light and smoke a cigarette: I've often thought it should be taught in drama schools along with fencing, fan-wielding and verse-speaking."
And here's Dan to show you how, kids.
Ed...Thanks. I'll pass that on to the acting class tonight.
D.
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