Chasing Vouchers

Los Angeles, California. This has been another busy week in Hollywood with the highlight being this past Friday, when I had an exceptional time working as a Navy Seal on the show 24. Here I am pictured below along with buddy, Rick Schimmelpfenneg, who worked the show as a special ops guy. Rick and I have been a bit frustrated lately with the futility of aquiring our last remaining Screen Actor's Guild (SAG) vouchers. Unless you are able to land a speaking role on a SAG production, these vouchers are needed in order to join the union. Unfortunately, the system for acquiring them is less than equitable. No credit is given for putting in long hours, working hard on set or any other factor that might assess your responsibility, skill or professionalism as an actor. Instead, the process is geared towards special favors and personal favorites. It is commonplace for beautiful women to acquire their vouchers quickly, while it might take a year or longer for an average looking Joe like me. Rumors even hint at some unscrupulous PA's and AD's selling vouchers or using them for sexual favors. Regardless, this is the system in place and one has to just hold tight and wait for your break or get out of the game. Frustrated with all this, Rick and I produced the short video embedded below. The video has little to do with the actual voucher gaining process, but we put it in there as the theme for all this futile running around - enjoy!

Aside from this fooling around, I have also put in brief appearances this past week on Medium, Dexter, Bones, The Starter Wife, and The United States of Tara. Great shows.