Posts tagged actress

A dream. Poor. Wine. Rent. Roommates. Big city. What does that sound like? It sounds like things common in people that are living by as …

“I was hired by an older English actress who lived in a one room studio in the heart of Hollywood by herself. Her husband was dead, all of her friends were dead, and she had no one. She was a lovely, complicated woman. And she was alone and frightened. I drove her to the market and to do errands and would make sure she had everything she needed and she would pay me what she called ‘mad money.’ And I needed that mad money at the time.”

“That was the most amazing feeling, because even though we come from such different places, we still have so much in common. It fueled my belief that young women’s stories deserve to be told.”

“I kept hearing about similar experiences and ‘New York’ characters from other friends and actors. I wanted to create a web series that captured these wacky experiences and people”

A longtime fan of Saturday morning kidvid and sci-fi series like STAR TREK, WONDER WOMAN and LOST IN SPACE, Tozzi’s development as a filmmaker began to take shape thanks to two of 1977’s biggest blockbusters, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND and STAR WARS.

Nationally recognized spoken word poets lend their artistry to this series of vignettes where each dramatic episode connects the words, ideas and emotions of their performances to the  story.

“It’s pretty simple—no one wants to be pigeonholed. It’s pretty easy to make snap judgements about who someone is or what he/she is capable of based on very superficial criteria. Maybe don’t be so quick to do that.”

“There are, predictably, so many web series that focus on aspiring actors. But to be frank, I felt like I hadn’t seen one that was a true representation of an actor who is struggling. I wanted to explore what it’s like when you have no union, no agent, and really shitty prospects.”

What do you do when you ruin someone else’s web series? Go and make your own! Obviously…

True tales from film production hell – taking lemon jobs and making lemonade.