Well, there is good news, good news, and bad news.

I’ll start with one of the good newses. My mug will not, after all, be used to sell lottery tickets on national TV this december. Of course, this is also the bad news: as I gloomily predicted in yesterday’s post, my bungled screen test did not land me the coveted part in the lottery commercial.

However, the other good news by far outweighs this bad news. The casting director was present at the screen test yesterday, and today she filled my voice mail with praise for my performance and appearance, and stated her passionate intention to “work with me”. That means: more screen tests in the future, a fun new thing to do, and who knows? This particular casting director was involved in two recent major motion pictures! (Reality check: Dutch major motion pictures, which is not at all the same thing…)