On the Chola Set

What a busy week -- we filmed for a very long day and this is a photo of me with Alicia -- two Cholas from back in the day. I love the make-up and the costumes. I am always in my curlers and my pink robe. We are very close to completing Attack of the 30 Ft Chola. I only have one or two more scenes to film.

Kieron Estrada is our director and he does so much and is so knowledgeable. It is my thrill and pleasure to work with him. I am hoping that this film will get into the indie circuit.

It was a hectic week and now I am relaxing. Yay! Glad that the weather is better. I plan on catching up on housework, laundry and eating some good homecooked meals.

I just received an email this morning from a fellow co-star on our commercial. The commercial is for Starbucks and now that it is being aired I can talk about it. It was very exciting to go to the audition. I did a good job and the very next day my agent called me to let me know I was on avail. Then the following day she called me to tell me I booked the job. It is such a great feeling of accomplishment to know that I did something right.

I am reading a book right now about acting and so much is just trial and error. I have had some bad auditions but I learned from them. And I have had some auditions where I booked the job and I don't even know what I did right. And now I am to the point where I know I did well, didn't do well or could have done better. But I am feel that this job has put me into the category of being a professional actor. It's a wonderful feeling. I don't know anyone there, this job was not a favor for a friend. It was auditioning and being professional and doing a good job.

They were so wonderful on the set, I can't even tell you. The staff was professional. The food was good, everything about this job was amazing. And to think that I was very close to quitting at Christmas time. And as low as I felt, I kept thinking to myself that the next job could be the big job and it will go to someone else. So I swallowed those feelings of rejection and negativity and just knew that tomorrow would be a better day.

And here I am with a national commercial, an indie film and a feature film all in one month. Needless to say, my agent is happy with me. And I am thrilled to have her in my corner.

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Here is a photo of me on the set of the indie film, Attack of the 30 Foot Chola currently filming in East L.A. Also pictured with me are my two daughters Rosie & little Destiny. We had a wonderful time and I was very impressed with the other talented actors. Our director, Kieron Estrada was so good. He knew what he wanted, he was very clear what he wanted from the actors and we could see his passion & vision. I wish all the directors I worked with were like this. I have several more scenes I am doing for the film and should shoot again in awhile. I will keep you all posted. I also got a chance to finally meet actor, David Fernandez. We have been conversing online for many months and now we met. He is every bit as nice as I had thought. So glad we are working together. He is currently working on a film with actor, Andy Garcia. Nice!

Another busy week working as a Production Assistant at Movido TV. And there is a new acting class I am taking for the next month. Do you all remember Dustin Nguyen from the TV show, 21 Jump Street with co-star Johnny Depp? Well, Dustin is our instructor for the next 4 weeks. I have heard his classes are great. He only teaches this class once per year. I missed him last year so I am looking forward to this.

Watching a new film on Friday evening and doing a review for Latino LA magazine. I will let you know and give you my honest opinion of this film, Jonah Hex being released on Friday and stars Josh Brolin.

Well, I missed the Tony Awards last night. Too bad, I look forward to this every year and something always happens and I missed it again. But, I was working on my own film.

Want to see a preview of Attack of the 30 Foot Chola? Watch the teaser on You Tube. Oh, and turn up the volume!

Attack of the 30 Ft Chola

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I received a message from Kieron Estrada, director of Attack of the 30 Ft Chola. I will be shooting my scenes at the end of this month. I am so excited. I actually auditioned last year for the role of Rosalinda. Rosalinda is the mother of Rosie, an overweight girl who is trying to fit in with the gang of chola girls. They are bad asses and Rosie is a good girl who just wants to be accepted into a bad group.

Kieron just released a teaser of this feature film on You Tube. I will put the link and I hope it works. If not, then enter Attack of the 30 Ft Chola teaser on the search engine of You Tube and you can watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=787TbjZkTxI


Another fun thing to watch is a video report of Joe Chacon who plays the character of Oscar in the film. He filmed a portion of working on the set of Attack. I enjoyed watching it too.

So many times we are working on the set and sometimes we cannot bring cameras to the set. It's nice to be able to document the behind the scenes moments. I worked twice on "Gigantic" for Teen Nickelodeon. It is a new show and premieres in April, 2010. I had a blast and everyone was so easygoing. Wish filming could be like this all the time.

I've been asked to audition lately for some local theater work. But I've done several projects already and I really want to concentrate on furthering my career in television and film. So, I am off to a good start with the pilot film, "Live from Earth; It's Gawd" and "Gigantic" and now "Attack of the 30 Ft Chola". Of course, I am still going out for commercial auditions.

To follow up from the blog yesterday, I did have a full body massage, facial, got a manicure and went out to dinner with family. It was a great day!

Can't wait to shoot my scenes. Be sure to catch the teaser on You Tube and do leave a comment. I will let you folks know more about the project as I know more.

Adios!