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Dress Up Summoner Girl Mina by moai666 on DeviantArt | Succubus Dress Up GameIt’s a boiling day in Wilmington, N.C., and I’m bouncing up and bottomward to absent music while aggravating not to diaphoresis on the actuality bouncing up and bottomward abutting to me.
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Scary Lily Halloween Makeover ~ Succubus by MiniatureBlueOwl on ... | Succubus Dress Up GameForget journalism: My alluring career as a television added has begun.
I’m in Wilmington to appointment Sleepy Hollow which, for today, is cutting on area at a bar downtown. The primary purpose of my trip: Interview the casting —Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, John Noble, Katia Winter, Lyndie Greenwood and Matt Barr — and watch some scenes as they’re filmed.
The accessory purpose of my trip: Accomplish my mark on the abreast television mural by axis in a tour-de-force achievement as an added in a arena attempt at aloft bar.
I’m accessible for my fuzzy, blink-a-couple-of-times-and-you-miss-me not-so-close-up, Mr. DeMille.
THE UN-HIPPEST HIPSTER | The email from the Sleepy Hollow rep came in a few canicule earlier. The abnormal Fox ball will be alive on a club arena while I’m there — as allotment of a cruise abounding by three journalists from added outlets — and do I appetite to be an extra, if time permits?
My antecedent reaction: Hell no. I gave bearing to my aboriginal adolescent in June (adorable-if-I-do-say-so photo at right), and alike admitting I’m aglow with pride at what a absolute little actuality she is, I’m acutely sleep-deprived and still almost the admeasurement of Arkansas. Not absolutely camera-ready, unless they’re attractive for addition bent body to roam Purgatory.
The architecture administration wouldn’t alike accept to put the aphotic circles beneath my eyes.
My additional reaction: Hell yes. If my 10-year-old, TV-obsessed cocky could see me now, she’d bandy a Nintendo armament at my arch for alike because sitting this one out. Who gets this affectionate of fun opportunity? And how blah do you accept to be to about-face it down?
So I wrote aback to the show’s arranger and let her apperceive I was in. Anon came addition cannonball to the group: “Wardrobe is allurement that you accompany article that would be exhausted to a Silver Lake-type club,” she wrote, advice the Los Angeles-centric appellation for me and the added New York-based reporter, “which is a bit hipster.”
["400px"]She implored us not to accent about the clothes thing, aloof to accumulate it in apperception aback packing. My circadian compatible about that time was yoga pants and a catchbasin top — or nice yoga pants and a catchbasin top if I were abrogation the house.
I stressed, afraid and threw (maternity) jeans, a brace of scarves and some beefy black-framed glasses into my carry-on. That would be hipster enough, right? RIGHT?
‘I DON’T LOVE THEM’ | The day of the shoot, the added reporters and I absorb the morning talking with the casting in a architecture adjoining to area Adventure 8, “Heartless,” is actuality filmed. I apperceive my apparel selections may not be on point aback I see some added account actuality herded into the bar — which will be accepted as “Club Twerk” in the episode. These ladies attending like they’re headed to a casting alarm for a late-’90s Janet Jackson video, all miniskirts and bald midriffs and such.
A few hours later, the alarm for us to get into our apparel comes while I’m in the average of a chat with Winter, so I’m the aftermost one to change. It takes a while — you try action out of pre-pregnancy Spanx on a hot day in the South — but I’m anon agitation a atramentous T-shirt and the jeans.
Someone from apparel looks me over. He is actual nice, but I can acquaint I don’t scream “hipster” aback he says, “What abroad do you have?” I authority up the simple atramentous dress I was cutting earlier. He nods. “Let’s go with that.”
Re-Spanxed and aback in my artery clothes, I appearance him my scarves and put on the glasses. His attending is boxy to read.
“You abhorrence them,” I say, whipping the prescription-less frames off my face.
“I don’t abhorrence them,” he replies.
["400px"]“But you don’t adulation them.”
He all-overs his head. “I don’t adulation them.”
So all of my accessories are nixed, and I arch to set with the alone affair that differentiates Roots the added from Roots the journalist: a few blockhead pins that transform my ponytail into a messy, club-ready bun, address of one of the show’s affectionate beard stylists. (See the abracadabra happen at right.)
WALKING, NO TALKING | The sun alfresco the bar is strong, but acknowledgment to blackout curtains and artistic lighting, it’s backward black inside. It’s additionally really, absolutely hot; the air conditioning has been off while the cameras are rolling, attributable to how loud it is. As you’d imagine, the added account in the arena accept been there for a while and attending a little bit like they’re melting.
The added reporters and I are placed at the end of the bar and accustomed assorted instructions: Don’t attending anon into the camera, attending like you’re accepting fun during an black out, that affectionate of thing. Appropriate afore anniversary take, a few abnormal of assault ball music is played, afresh aggregate but the bass drops out; the music needs to go so the microphones can aces up the actors’ dialogue, but the exhausted helps the blow of us attending like we’re all allure to the aforementioned song. (Music and accomplishments babble will be laid in later.)
A few of us are best to airing agreed places at agreed times, and the all-overs I feel aback it’s my about-face to do so rivals the anxiety I had afore my aboriginal active test.
It’s walking, Roots. Walking that could actually amount the assembly time and money if you spiral it up, granted, but still. Pull yourself together. I administer not to breach annihilation or footfall on Tom Mison’s toes, so I accede it a success. (P.S. No footage of me walking was used.)
WHO, ME? | The arena involves Ichabod and Hawley authoritative their way through the crowd, analytic for the daydream that attacked the compensation hunter beforehand in the episode. From area I am stationed, I accept a absolute appearance of their exchange, but I’m not declared to be advantageous absorption to them… alike admitting I accept that a attractive dude in Colonial accoutrements would apparently acquire at atomic an countenance accession at alike the trendiest establishment.
So instead I silently faux-chat with one of the added reporters and breed a appearance who is attractive for some accompany that promised to appearance up, but they never did, and now she’s over it. My acting choices absorb a lot of absurd scanning of the club entrance, blockage my watch and attractive bored.
["400px"]At one point, a macho added in a clothing who’s continuing further bottomward the bar catches my eye, smiles and after-effects to the bartender as admitting he’s affairs me a drink. I acknowledge appealing abundant how I accept consistently reacted to this affectionate of attention: I bloom fiendishly, accord a tiny nod of acknowledgment and afresh avoid my eyes for the blow of the time I’m there.
What can I say? I’m Method.
BUT WHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO IS DIRECT | In amid takes, aggregation associates alternation carriageable admirers on Barr and Mison so they don’t alpha to get as agleam as the blow of us. At one point, Barr lifts his shirt, and a woman wielding one of these admirers targets his abs.
This is her job, and it’s a acceptable one.
Mison jokes about with us during a break. “Is this the columnist section?” he asks, gesturing to area best of us are clumped. But afore we can say much, it’s time to go again.
We do a few added takes, shoot the arena from the about-face bend to accomplish abiding everything’s covered, and then, suddenly, we’re done. The added account will carry admiral for addition scene, which agency hours added of afraid and bopping and continuing around, but my showbiz entrĂ©e has run its course.
I arise actual briefly in the episode; aback Ichabod and Hawley are talking in the club, I’m the bistered to the far appropriate in the accomplishments in some of the shots (including the one above). It’s abundant to accord my mom article to blow about at bingo abutting week, but not absolutely abundant to get me my Screen Actors Guild card. Still, I’m so animated I did it, if alone because aback I run into Mison a few weeks afore it airs, he delivers this tongue-in-cheek analysis of my performance:
“You’re admirable in it,” he says, aggravating (and failing) to authority aback a laugh. “I anticipate you fabricated a actual adventurous choice, and you went for it, which is admirable.”
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