Casual Review of "Model Minority" the film

Today I watched a movie called "Model Minority".
It was pretty good. Since I am in Los Angeles now, it is so real and so close to home.
The great thing about it is that I was expecting a more Asian-stereotype focused film but this wasn't. It was more like a story which happens to happen to an Asian family. Not an Asian family portrait but an American family portrait with the father that happens to be Asian. This is in a way breaking a stereotype in its own. Which is great! And so real because I am sure any family could experience this.

As an Asian, I thought the family was NOT Asian at all. They are like Americanized, which they are. And only a trace of Asianness is left, for example calling grandma's ba-chan, I see that in my Japanese American friends. And the conflict with white people and black people, that is so real and such a reflection of an Asian American kid growing up in LA.

I just wondered how this family is so conflicted, do they love each other? Sometimes they do, when their mom was in trouble, the sister was quick to leave the drugdealer boyfriend to take the mother home.  But then the mother is abusive and the sisters don't give a f and seemed to give up on their mother and go hang out with their cool friends. The dad never appeared until the end. The grandma cared a little and then stopped caring until the sister is in jail, then she started caring again. That is one strange family.

Both sisters are great actresses. Perfect for the roles. The dad's face is so chiseled and handsome he doesn't look like a construction worker. And why is there a white trash mom who doesn't love the family and is a drug addict? The dad and mom are one odd couple for sure.

But yay for another great raw film reflecting a raw piece of life. Great thing marijuana is legalized so we hopefully wont see something like this happen too much.

New Website update!

Hey yall!

I am doing very fine during quarantine. Staying home and staying up to date with my training/skills.
Also launching my new website!

officialsadie.com

It's official!
Check it out!
Under "portfolio" are my reel clips. You don't want to miss me doing my zombie move, do you?

More coming up, including a play I read on zoom with a team, and Captain Planet parody, made over zoom with a bunch of friends over on the East Coast, where I get to play, you guessed it, Gi!

Stay put and praying for peace every day.

Beware of LA Connection

Hey blog!

So I got an audition for an improv group/show called LA Connection.
They called me to audition so I said I would go.
But then before I went, I was smart enough to ask my improv teacher at Second City about it. Because I am smart. And sexy.
And I was glad I asked, because my teacher immediately told me his experience.

So this place is actually a training center in disguise. It is not a troupe but a school. And you have to audition and then pay for rehearsals. "Pay"??? OK that is an alarming keyword to me. As a poor actor, I don't like to hear that word! And why would you have to pay for rehearsals?

My teacher said this group was found by a guy who went to Second City for a while, and then started
this place. But it was just kind of sort of an improv school that is shady. They tell you to pay dues to join, and then you rehearse for shows. Hence the paid rehearsals.

But he said he went to one of their shows, and the shows were .... yeah.
First the show was using improv exercises not even games to use as show material. And there was this rude guy who was doing everything he could to alienate the audience.
Then there is this part where the teen group were called up, and the guy made them do "accents". So audience members would choose an accent from a country and have the kids mimic all the stereotypes of that country's peoples. How offensive!! We would never do that at our classes.

 My teacher said there was the suggestion of Japan among others, and of course you then see 3 white boys mimicking Japanese accent with all the stereotypes, while the guy(owner) himself laughed like crazy. My teacher was just shocked and stunned in the audience. I asked him how did the audience receive it, he said some white women were laughing, but probably for the wrong reasons.
What the heck!! (ps my teacher is white if you wanted to know.)

So I did not go to the audition. And I would like to share the experience here. I mean where better to share it than on my blog that no one reads!

Anyway I hope it was not too biased, tried to only speak the facts.

Update on life:
My acting life is taking a sprint! I am really busy these days just booking jobs! Sometime background and sometimes speaking roles! Yay! And I am SAG-E now, getting to the point where I might have to join soon. Trying to save up for that.

Stay tuned for my awesome review of  Always be My Maybe which I just watched!

3/15 My first appearance on public radio

So this is a tiny milestone to break I guess.

For the local series which I auditioned and got a role (recap here)
the producer is also doing a local radio show!
And he put me on and had a short interview with me!!
OMG! I have never been on radio before! I never liked the idea of talking my whole life lol. (only now that I am acting, I need to talk all the time..)
I was so nervous. When the time comes, I received a call. Then I was on!

Good thing is, it was only very short. Maybe 10 minutes.
They only asked me how I felt when I got the role, how did I end up acting...etc.
And I was worried that I wouldn't be funny and entertaining but I thought it would be in vain to try so I didn't even "try to be funny". And it was fine. Being funny was just naturally in my blood so I didn't need to try lol.

They asked me to give a shout-out to my friends. So I just said "omg I am on radio!!" the way people say "mom I am on TV". haha.

Why was I so cool about it? Well it was a local station, and most likely not too many souls are listening anyway.

But I was glad I made it onto the radio, for the first time ever!

Life continues...