A fun-filled week in the life..!

We had such a lovely and action packed week! We really just have so much fun together!

Monday was Memorial Day so we had the day off and decided to break out the tennis racquets and head over to Griffith Park for a match! We went via the hugest and most useless Sears near us for tennis balls and they had EVERY OTHER type of ball, what? So then we went to target, success, and on to Griffith Park! There was so much going on! Families picnicking, music playing, some sort of friendly volleyball comp - fun! We had a great time wacking the ball back and forth (as well as twerking to the music between serves hehe) and stayed about an hour and a half before heading home.

Han had an audition to self tape for that afternoon which was exciting! It was a quick one too, so didn't take much time (even despite doing about 25 takes to get it just right). Then that night Brian and Brittany, our neighbors down the hallway, came over for dinner. Luce made her delish quinoa salad, Han grilled some chicken to perfection, and Bri and Brit brought over something yummy and uhh red, in a glass bottle ;) thanks guys! We had a great chat, got some amazing recommendations for our upcoming day trip to San Diego, and learned more about our cool new friends.

On Tuesday we weren't working again, kinda lame, but we ended up having a great day! Chambers needed help making posters for another play he wrote and we'd hardly seen him since going to Austria, so we went in for a couple hours and helped out. 

Afterwards we went to Ventura Blvd, the street near us that we met Lena Heady on, to find Luce the perfect dress for a super exciting callback the next day!! After quite the search, American Apparel came through for us and Luce got something super cute! Sullivan, our absolutely wonderful friend from Greasy Grimey Gopher Guts, met us at the Chipotle on Ventura for the most amazing burrito bowls that we'd been seeeriously craving, yuuum!! We all went back to our place and spent about 4 hours catching up, baking cookies, and planning an adorably ridiculous "special skill" for our callback, such a lovely night!

Our callback on Wednesday was at 8:30am in El Segundo which meant leaving our place at 6:30am OHMYGOSH! We also had to look our absolute best - you could say, like real "beauties" - so we woke up at 5:00! Woaaahh! Took us back to school days..! We made it out there, lookin fab, with plenty of time to spare so we went and picked up Q's Father's Day prezzie before heading to the hotel where they were holding callbacks. We really shouldn't say much about the callback itself, but WOW we're there some strange girls there! We absolutely rocked our somewhat joint interview bit, we felt like we were totally adorable and potential standouts. It didn't quite work in our favour in the end because we weren't chosen to move forward BUT we met an absolutely lovely Aussie girl there, Natalie, who we totally clicked with! 

It turned out she was going to take the train back into LA, so we offered to give her a lift and ended up having such a great chat that we continued over coffee once we made it to Hollywood Blvd. We walked down the street a little and saw the setup for the Maleficent premiere which was super cool, very LA, and Natalie gave us heaps of really great tips on acting, auditioning, and surviving as an Aussie in LA - such a sweetheart!

We went our separate ways and we headed over to Chambers' again to keep going on the posters for a little while before going to tech for the show. There was a great group there, lots of our fave castmates, and we had a chill time making posters and hanging out before heading over to the Lounge Theatre for tech for GGGG part 2 next week!

Tech was fun and fairly easygoing, getting the gang back together, and we're pumped to have a second crack at the play! Yay!

We only had a couple hours at home before Han went out again to an audition for Coriolanus at a theatre downtown!

-- Han --

My audition went really well! I had a chat with the director, did my monologue a couple times with some adjustments, and got asked to come in for a callback on the spot! It was a little tough though because the theatre's about half an hour away from our place, the role I was auditioning for was really quite small, and the time commitment was HUGE, yikes! So, as much as I like to jump at any opportunity, I decided to pass this one up - the director really seemed to like me, though, so I'm sure I'll audition for another show for him in the future! It was so nice and familiar to be auditioning for a theatre production again and I realized how much I've missed doing full length, dramatic plays - hopefully I'll be able to find/audition for something a bit closer to home soon!

Yesterday and today we were both on different sets doing background and we each had two awesome days!

-- Luce --

On Thursday I had a very relaxed day of background work! I was on the show Mistresses and I rocked up to Culver City Studios at 9:30 ready to go! After getting signed in and going through wardrobe we were shuttled off to set - on location at a church! It was a really short scene and all we had to do was say The Lord's Prayer and then sit down in the pews. They filmed really quickly and it ended up only being a 4 hour day! Amazing! 

I headed home and had a lovely afternoon. I read all of The Fault In Our Stars by John Green and it was such a good read. An absolutely beautifully written book and a complete tearjerker! I cried pretty much non-stop while reading, so by the time Han got home I'd finished the book and greeted her with puffy teary eyes! 

Today I was working on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia and it was in Fox Studios which is always really fun to visit! Because Han and I were driving up to Mum and Q's place tonight we decided to go straight from our background gigs to theirs and because my call time was an hour before Han's she dropped me off at Fox Studios and then went to Paramount which is about half an hour away... And for the whole one-car thing to work we were kiiind of counting on Han finishing before me so she could come pick me up when I finished so we could drive out together, which would also mean that I wouldn't have to figure out public transportation..

It was a really fun day and I played a bar patron in a speed-dating scene and stood about 2 feet away from Danny Devito! So cool!

I ended up only being needed for 3 hours and was done by 6:30! Which was great but a bit of a problem because Han wasn't going to finish till 9 so I had some time to kill and absolutely no idea of what to do! As I was walking out to find a taxi or bus or something I ran into a guy, Nathan, and his friend and I'd only talked to Nathan for a minute or two on set but we started chatting and he said that he and his pal were going to wander around the studios and explore while waiting for traffic to die down and asked if I wanted to join them! I had nothing better to do so I hung out with them and it was a great time! Then we all went out to get dinner and he insisted on paying for my meal!! Lovely. And then he offered to drive me over to where I was meeting up with Han and absolutely wouldn't accept petrol money from me even though I tried my hardest to give it to him! What a nice person. Then Han met me about 5 minutes later and everything timed up perfectly and worked out so wonderfully!! 

-- Han --

I was working on The Thundermans again both days and the cast and crew were just as much fun as they were a couple weeks ago! There were lots of familiar faces on set, including the girl I spent most of my day with last time! I'm loving working on that set, so I hope they keep calling me back! On Thursday we worked our butts off; went went from 12:30 to 2:00, broke for lunch until 3:00, then didn't stop at all until 9:00! It was great though because the time flew by AND I avoided the mindless snacking that inevitably happens on set, woo! I also made it into the shot in a major way because myself and one other girl were chosen to react to the man guy (who's really talented, by the way, and such a good sport!) when he tried to cut in line. It's always exciting to be in the shot and it also meant that I got asked back in the small group of people recalled for today! Success! The other highlight of the day was that I met up with JT over at stage 18 when I was on break for lunch! He recently booked a recurring role on another Nickelodeon show (SO stoked for him!! What a legend!) and he had rehearsals yesterday and today. He greeted me with an "Oi oi!", showed me all around the set and his trailer, and introduced me to a bunch of lovely people! I can't wait to see his episodes now that I've had a look behind the scenes!!

Today was a super easy day on set, I was only there for 5 hours and only used for 1 and a half, nice! I inadvertently matched outfits with one guy and took a sneaky selfie with one of my girlfriends, shhh..!

I had a great chat with a cameraman who was a fellow Aussie and another who'd filmed Sean's finale on the Bachelor in Thailand, so cool! It's really nice to be able to get to know some of the crew, so fingers crossed they call me back next week!

We wrapped just before 9:00 and I met up with Luce about 15 minutes later - great day on the job!

-- Han & Luce --

Besides all that, last night we spoiled ourselves with some amazing chia seed pudding for dessert (made by Luce)! Yum! We also spent this morning playing tennis at some courts near our apartment. It wasn't quiiite as fun as last time.. We were both being particularly uncoordinated and Luce got uncharacteristically cranky at Han! We had a laugh about it buuut we might have to brush up a bit on our basic skills before we hit the courts again! 

Tonight we both got wrapped super quickly and made our way to Amoeba Records to pick up a gift for Mike whose birthday just passed. We ended up getting there within about 5 minutes of each other, crazy! We grabbed an incredible Joffrey Baratheon bobble head for Mike, did a shameless boba run, filled up the tank with the most expensive petrol in the US, and drove out to Mum and Q's to celebrate Father's Day tomorrow! The best convo/quote of the drive was:

(Luce softly and quite pleasantly sings along to the music)

Han: "I don't know why, but when it gets late I totally lose patience with your singing-along. Like absolutely no offense, I actually quite enjoy it otherwise but I'm just not feelin it.."

Luce: "errkayy"

(8 seconds pass. Lucy starts to hum. We both realize what's happening..)

Luce: "Can I whistle? Can I hum?!"

HA! Luce was SO donkey and Han was SO Shrek, too real. We both cracked up! Aaaand Luce proceeded to sing along to the music the rest of the way to Mum and Q's hahah.

We're super excited about our fun day out tomorrow! We're doing Father's Day Sea World style and heading out to San Diego super early, woo! Tomorrow's adventures (and undoubtedly many more!) soon to come, stay tuned!

Who Needs Sleep??

It's been an amazing few days for us with a lot of reeeally late nights..!

On Wednesday Luce had another audition! Woo! We also went out and bought everything we needed for our costumes for Disney on Friday! So exciting!!

-- Luce --

My audition was for a World Cup themed Corona commercial and it was so fun! I went on a quick shopping spree with Han beforehand because I needed "sexy shorts" for the audition and I didn't think any of the shorts Han and I had were sexy enough..! Haha.. So we went out and found some appropriately sexy shorts (and they were on sale!!) in addition to finding all of the costume items we needed!

My audition was at 3:45 so I got all dressed up and arrived with plenty of time to spare.. It was lucky I was there early because there was a line out the door of soooo many girls dressed in various different skimpy outfits! Ha! I was auditionee number 124 and they were only up to around number 90 when I arrived so I had a little while to wait.. After about an hour, four other girls and I went into a little room in front of the casting directors! We had to then say our name, the name of our agency, and then slowly turn in a circle so they could see every side of us.. Embarrassingly for me, I didn't know about the whole turning in a circle thing and because I was the first girl to go there was this awkward pause and one of the other girls had to tell me to turn! Ahh so embarrassing! But I laughed it off so I think it's fine haha... After that we all had to pick up a Corona and sell it to the man on the audition panel! I had fun with it and was as charming and cute as I could possibly be, so in the end I felt great about my audition! I then walked back to the car (with beeps and catcalls galore from passers by) and then went home to see Han! Yayyy!

-- Han & Luce --

In the morning, we ran all over North Hollywood finding singlets, soffe shorts, long socks, name tags, fabric, and a hot glue gun to put together the masterpieces that were our Disney costumes! It was really fun and we had better luck finding everything than we'd expected, we couldn't wait to wear em!

Next on the agenda (after Lucy's audition) was getting ready for a suuper fun and fancy night out with our new promoter friend Chad and his friends! We went to Fig & Olive in Hollywood for dinner and Oh. My. God. It was amazing! SO yummy, they just brought out plate after plate of incredible food! We had: 

1) Zucchini carpaccio

2) Crostinis. A cheese, fig paste, and almond one, a shrimp, guac, and grapes one, a ricotta, pesto, balsamic one, and one with roast beef and horseradish

3) Cheese truffle mushroom fried ball things

4) Salmon with mashed potatoes and asparagus

5) Pasta with mushrooms, garlic, and olive oil 

6) Couscous

7) Strawberry shortcake

8) Chocolate mousse

9) Strawberry gelato

10) Caramel/honeycomb nougat bites of heaven

We lived the lives of rich people for FREE on a WEDNESDAY?!! Unreal.

After dinner we went over to an awesome new club that Chad promotes, skipped the line, and headed inside! The music was awesome and it had a really cool vibe inside. It was kind of circusy with a jester guy running around and the waitresses all in costume, we loved it! We danced and hung out for a couple hours, taking it all in!

Given that it was a Wednesday, though, we faded kinda early and decided to call it a night around 12:30. It was SUCH a different experience to our first time clubbing in LA and, honestly, even more fun!

On Thursday we slept in, took it easy, organized everything we needed to take to Mum and Q's, and Luce finished making our AMAZING additional costume pieces! The reason we had such a cruisey day was...... We'd both been booked on the same ALL NIGHT call AGAIN! Ohhhmygoshh we were not so excited about pulling a second all nighter! It actually ended up being a really fun night though. We were filming a bonfire scene, so it was a pretty big call with some really fun people - lots of familiar faces in the 18-to-look-younger background circuit. We ate an amazing chorizo breakfast burrito, made it into the shot heaps of times, listened to some shockingly bad guitar playing/rapping at holding, froze our butts off, and laughed a lot. We wrapped around 5:30am (almost 12 hours after our call time!) and drove straight out to Mum and Q's for the weekend. Luce, like an absolute champ, got us there safely and we both stumbled into bed for a few hours sleep before the Disney 24-hour party!

Feeling rejuvenated after food and coffee, we got into our adorable costumes (Toy Story themed: Hamm, Rex, and Mr. & Mrs. Potatohead) and the fam bam headed to Disneyland, woo!!! 

We had a FANTASTIC time! Our costumes were a huge hit, we tried some delicious Maleficent cake-pops and the best hot dogs EVER, ran into the most amazing Kevin and Mr. Frederickson from Up, killed it on Toy Story Midway Mania, watched Aladdin, did Luigi's Tires and Tower of Terror, and most definitely rocked our Disney side!!

The quote of the day came when the ride loading guy in Cars Land said "A dragon next to a cat, that seems dangerous!" What?! I mean yes Hamm and Rex are slightly obscure costumes except for the fact that 1) we're in Disneyland, 2) we're walking around with Mr. & Mrs. Potatohead, and 3) we're wearing NAMETAGS..!

Haha too funny! We watched World of Colour at night and it was as magical as ever - made even more magical by the Ghirardelli hot chocolates we were drinking! Then we went over to Disneyland to finish the night on Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters and Star Tours (we also bumped into Han's old roommate and bestie Sierra!! Yeee! SO lovely to see her and catch up!!) 

We made it to midnight and called it a night, all very impressed and satisfied with such a great effort on so little sleep! It was a wonderful afternoon of disney magic and so lovely to catch up with mum and Q after about 3 weeks apart!

Yesterday and today were the most relaxing and cruisey days at Mum and Q's. We sat in the spa, watched movies, played with the doggies, ate yummy food, and did a ton of laundry - a successful weekend! We just got back to the apartment and are getting ready for the fun and busy week ahead! Stay tuned!

Social Butterflies

We've had a jam packed and completely awesome few days! Our social lives are rockin, work's going great, we're auditioning more, and, as always, eating like queens!

-- Han --

Friday was SUCH a great day for me!! Everything worked out perfectly, it couldn't have gone better! I was an extra on a Nickelodeon show in the morning and the best part was, it was a union job!! Which is pretty rare to get if you're non-union and means a couple things 1) I was specifically chosen for it and made it into the shot quite a bit 2) I got paid more than twice as much as a normal background gig! Woo! My call time was 9:30, so very civilized, and they were shooting at Paramount studios in Hollywood. I made it to set with plenty of time to spare and it turned out there were only ten or fifteen extras there at all, which is a pretty small call and made it really fun. The show was filmed like sit-coms and other Disney/Nick shows where they shoot with 4 cameras at the same time instead of using one or two and doing close ups and all sorts of angles, shooting the take over and over. I'd never been on a multi-cam set before and it actually felt quite a lot like doing theatre! It was awesome! It also went much quicker, we were done with each of the two scenes in just a few takes, which meant that it was a really short day on set too - I was wrapped by 1:00!! Of all days to get wrapped early, this was THE BEST because............ Gregory (our agent) had gotten me an audition at 4:00 that day! Woo!! I ran home, chilled out for a bit, freshened up, and went back out for my audition!

The audition was for the same project Luce auditioned for the other day! It was really fun - I checked in, waited a little, then headed in. It was the same deal, tell a short story, only the role I was auditioning for was a clever, confident, knows-what-she-wants kind of girl, so I opted for my leaving Andrew the note on his jacket story instead of something funny or embarrassing. I think it was a hit! Then I had to act out this little scene with the phone, twice, actually, because the director gave me an adjustment from the first time, and that was it! Job done! I drove home feeling very satisfied and extremely lucky  that my day had worked out so perfectly! And it just kept getting better from there!

When I got home we had dinner, then I went downstairs to the gym to work out. After my workout I went for a dip in the pool/spa and met some of our neighbors from across the hall, Brittany and Brian, and their friends Drew and Schwartz (Andrew). They were SO nice and I was stoked to meet people our age, in our building, who seem really fun! We chatted and hung out in the pool till it closed, then they invited us (I'd told them all about Luce already haha) to their place for margaritas and a hilarious game of Cards Against Humanity. 

It was such an unexpectedly great night and we were both so excited to make friends in our building, yay!

-- Luce --

My Friday was a bit more relaxed compared to Han's epic day! For most of the day I worked on a self-tape audition that I'd been asked to send in to the casting director of a short film! I had to film myself performing two monologues from the script and then figure out how to send such big files!! It took a little while but I was really happy with the final product. That audition was also my 5th in the last 2 weeks so I'm feeling pretty stoked to finally be getting some regular auditions!! Yay! Then hanging out with our lovely neighbors was the perfect way to end the day!

On Saturday we took it pretty easy. We went out to the same shopping area we went to last week to buy a 'Paradise Falls' jar, like the one from Up, for us to start putting money in to go towards a future trip to Europe! We got our jar and decided to go to Olive Garden for lunch! We still hadn't used the gift cards we got last Christmas and it seemed like just the right moment! The highlight were these fried olive/cheese/veggie ball things with blue cheese dipping sauce yuuuum! We also decided to go to the Outback Steakhouse across the road to pick up job applications in case we want another job - with the accent we'd be sure to make great tips! But the chick there was so unbelievably rude to us, refusing to even print off a piece of paper because they were too "busy" (there was almost no one there) so we decided maybe that's not where we want to work anyway... 

The best part of the day, though, was that we went to see the new movie Neighbors and we absolutely LOVED it!! Hysterical! We haven't laughed out loud at a movie like that in I don't know how long - maybe ever! The storyline was unexpected and completely satisfying, the jokes were hilarious, and Zac Efron's bod was on fiiire haha a perfect comedy!

Sunday was a packed day too! We woke up early and went over to our friend's boyfriend's place because he does a podcast and he asked to interview us on it! We were a little unsure of what we'd talk about for an hour but it was actually surprisingly easy! He asked us some really great questions, we talked about being twins, our two big relocations, acting, family, LA and who knows what else! We'll post a link to the podcast on the blog when it comes out, hopefully you can tell our voices apart!

In the afternoon went to a pool party that Drew, who we met on Friday night, invited us to. We dressed pretty casually, wore our swimmers, didn't put on much makeup - as you do for a pool party, right? - and left. When we got there, though, we realized that ohmygod this is a pool party in the Hollywood Hills aaaand you do not dress like that... All the girls were in either chic, flowy outfits, or umm pretty much nothing haha. We were glad we didn't look like the trashy ones buuut we would've liked to look a little more like the chic ones! It was a really fun party though and the house - and the view from the house - was spectacular!

We met a bunch of Drew's friends, danced a little, got a free bum bag with inbuilt speakers, and scored an invite to dinner on Wednesday (tomorrow!) night, success!

We finished the night with the most EPIC Game of Thrones double feature ever at Nick, Mike, and Eddie's. SO excited for next week, wow!!

-- Han --

Yesterday was a craaazy long but freakin awesome day for me! I was doing background on the show Wilfred on Venice Beach and my call time was 7:00am!! I woke up at 4:45 and left by 5:30 to give myself plenty of time to get there. When I rocked up everyone was having breakfast from catering, so I grabbed a coffee and sat down at a table with a few spare seats. "Hiii" I said to the only other guy at the table, he looked up, with a mouth full of breakfast burrito, and stared into my soul with the piercing blue eyes of FRODO BAGGINS!!! OHMYGOSH I WAS TALKING TO ELIJAH WOOD!!! Gahh! SO COOL! He swallowed his mouthful and said: "Hi, what's your name?" (Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!! The rest of the conversation played out like this...)

Me "Hannah"

Him "Elijah, nice to meet you"

Me "nice to meet you too!"

Him "is your name palindromic?"

Me "oh yea, that's the way to go"

Him "haha absolutely"

Me "I guess it's even a palindrome within a palindrome"

Him "haha that's right"

(I took my book outta my bag)

Him "what're you reading?"

Me "this side of paradise, F Scott Fitzgerald"

Him "ohh, nice!"

Me "yea I loved Gatsby so I figured I'd give it a go"

Him "yea Gatsby's the only book of his I've read, so good"

Me "ahh yea, amazing! I've just read Gatsby and Tender is the Night - I didn't love Tender is the Night, I mean it was beautifully written but a little slow going" 

Him "how's this one so far?"

Me "I'm only like 20 pages in but so far so good! I'm hoping they just place me somewhere on the beach today and I get to read my book all day haha"

Him "yea, there you go! That'd be great!"

(I laugh, he gets up from the table)

Him "well it was nice meeting you Hannah"

Me "nice meeting you too!"

Him "I'll see you down there"

Me "yea, you bet!"

He was so nice!!! Like, incredibly nice!! Wow! I emailed Grandpa a transcript of the conversation right afterwards so I wouldn't forget it - and so I could share my excitement with someone else who would be equally excited! 

The rest of the day on set was super, super easy and fun! They barely even used the background at all! They just told us to chill out on the beach and wait for instructions - not too shabby! Getting paid to sit on the beach all day! 

I met some really lovely people, had a delicious prawn salad for lunch, got some sun, and ended up getting paid 2 hours overtime - I was there until 6:30!! Pretty great day!

Traffic coming home was a bit of a nightmare, though, and I made it back at 7:50, showered/got ready in record time, and then Luce and I went over to Brian and Brittany's to meet up with them, Drew, and Schwartz for dinner!

-- Luce --

On Monday I had my first Greasy Grimey Gopher Guts rehearsal since the show ended back in February! It was so much fun and some of the scenes were swapped around so I got to learn a new scene with Gerald who is really funny and great to work with! Rehearsal took up a good chunk of my day and when I got home I only had a couple of hours to chill out before Han got home and we all went out to dinner!

-- Han & Luce --

We all piled in Brian and Brittany's car and headed into Hollywood for dinner at Roscoe's! None of them had ever been before and the chicken and waffles were amazing as always and a huge hit with the gang! 

After dinner we went just down the street to Lucky Strike, the bowling alley Mike (as in our GoT watching partner in crime, Mike) works at, and he gave us the total VIP treatment!! Our bowling abilities are shocking as ever but it didn't even matter because it was easily the COOLEST bowling alley we've ever seen!! 

There was a full on lounge and bar in one area, leather seats by the lanes, amazing food and drinks (all on the house thank to Mike! What a legend!!), great music, and fun people! 

We'd bowled a couple balls when Eddie and his brother and sister showed up to join us, so the party just got bigger and better! When Mike was entering their names in he made some, uhh, nicknames up for the rest of us, too funny! Luce was Arya Stark and Han was Cersei, in true GoT style. Brittany's was also GoT: Mother of Dragons (aka Danaerys which we could totally see). A few other standouts were Penis Face, Animal Parts, Bologna, Captain Cocknose, and Jockstrap Sniffer hahah hilarious.

Brian destroyed us all at bowling - the two of us and Eddie started calling ourselves The Gutterballs, we might make Tshirts - and we went upstairs for some karaoke! Eddie did a beautiful rendition of Under the Sea and Drew, Brittany, and Han did a pretty questionable but very fun rendition of Survivor by Destiny's Child.

Charlie's Angels meets Destiny's Child - can you handle it? It was such a fun night!! We all headed home and fell into bed. It was a huge day for Han - awake for 22 hours! - so it was nice to be able to sleep in a bit today!

Today we woke up around 10:00 which was a bit of a luxury! Luce had a later call time for background and Han took the day off after the crazy day yesterday. 

-- Luce --

Today I had a relaxing morning and then went to do background on the show Awkward at 1:00! It was a low pressure shoot and the background was pretty much just walking back and forth in a hallway for 9 hours..! I met some really nice people though and the food was absolutely amazing so all in all it was a great day! 

-- Han -- 

Luce headed off to set and I got down to business! Our place has been getting a little on the out-of-control-side so I just went through it like a tornado of cleaning madness and made it absolutely sparkling clean! Woo!! It took me about 2 and a half hours and felt sooo good when I was done! Before I knew it, it was 6:15 and time for me to head over to JT's for a rockin game night with him, Laynie, and a bunch of his actor friends from Texas! We ate guacamole and trail mix (so good), played Battle of the Sexes and Cards Against Humanity, had an impromptu dance break, and laughed a lot. Great night with lovely new people!

Nailed it..

Not too much to report from the last few days: recovering from the amazingness of our Lena Headey encounter, shopping, errands, background work, auditions, and an extremely embarrassing move on set by Han! Eeeek!

The two auditions:

1) Luce: On Tuesday I had an audition for a Samsung commercial and it was really fun!! I got there and found myself surrounded by very tall thin models so that was a bit of a surprise..! But I took it all in stride and I think it went quite well. All I had to do was tell a story that was 30 seconds long to the camera so I told the story of this past New Year's and how adorable Will was when his wish was "to be cool"! Ha, the casting panel seemed to love it and I left with a smile on my face! 

2) Today our photographer friend Yosh held auditions for the pilot episode of his webseries! We both auditioned for the same role and it went really well - we each got a callback on the spot! Woo!! It feels so great to have lines to memorize and a character to explore, even just for an audition, so hopefully one of us gets the role and has a regular little gig going!

The one 'special' moment:

1) Han: I did background work on Wednesday and it was around 10:30 at night and I'd avoided coffee like a champ, so my awareness and ability to deal with unexpected situations were both somewhat compromised. We were outside doing a big 'at the town fair' type scene, and I'd been told to a long cross at the very start of the scene behind all the action. We went through it once, no dramas, then just as I started to go back to my original place they started rolling again!! Ahh! I knew I had to hurry to make it back so I ran in front of EVERYONE to my spot - meanwhile, the director had called ACTION at the start of my little run and I hadn't heard!!! Gahh! Sooo there's a take of me run-shuffling right across camera. Also, I apparently messed up the lead actress because she was laughing at me, so I managed to ruin the take in two ways. And the worst part was, I was totally oblivious! So I couldn't even laugh it off! It's hard to recount the story with a feel for how public it was, but let's just say I was reminded of it constantly for the next 2 hours... Oh. My. God. Such a knob move! Well done me.. Aaaand now it's been immortalized in print hahaha. These were the texts I sent Luce right afterwards pretty much summing up my level of embarrassment...

We're both working tomorrow - Han on something potentially exciting, we'll see! - and then this weekend, who knows? The world (well the city anyway) is our oyster!

That time we met Lena Headey..!

We weren't working today so we cleaned our place and then went out to hike (which ended up taking an absurdly long time) and run some errands. We were at Bed Bath & Beyond picking out a shower mat when, in mid conversation, Luce turned to Han and said in the most forceful-yet-silent whisper imaginable "OHMYGOD THAT'S CERSEI!!" Ahhh!! What?!! Lena Headey just happened to be in the same Bed Bath & Beyond as us!!! Ohmygosh UNREAL!! We took a few seconds to catch our breath before casually following her around the store trying to think of what to say..! She was also on the phone which made it even more of a challenge, so we waited over by the exit, casually browsing through utensils, until she came to check out. We joined the line behind her and LUCKED OUT because there was a bit of a hold up - they didn't have the fan she wanted on the floor of the store, so a guy went to the back to get one for her - aaand while we waited, this magical, legendary, AMAZING conversation happened: 

Lena: Sorry to hold up the line..

Han: Oh no that's totally fine! Can we just say we absolutely love you in the show!

Lena: Yes, of course you can!

Luce: We're huge fans of the show and you're absolutely phenomenal

Han: Your acting's amazing

Lena: Thank you.. There's not really anything else to say except thank you!

*we laugh*

Lena: Are you girls Australian?

Han & Luce: Yeah we are!

Lena: I can tell the difference because I'm British but people are always like, 'are you..Australian..?'

Han: Yeah! Over here people always ask if we're British!

Lena: But the accents don't sound at all the same! 

Luce: Yeah!

Han: They're completely different

Lena: So where were you living in Australia?

Han: We lived in Canberra -

Luce: - not very exciting..

Lena: Oh, I've never been there

Han: You can probably give it a miss! 

(we, including Lena, laugh ohmygod!! LENA HEADEY LAUGHED AT OUR JOKE)

 - other register man interjects -

Man: I can ring you up over here

(Us in our minds 'noooo')

- he rung us up as quickly as possible. Luce punched in that pin number like a champ. On the way out -

*Lena smiles at us*

Han & Luce: Lovely talking to you!

Lena: You too, bye!

Han: Best of luck with the rest of the show and everything!

Luce: Bye!

Oh. My. God. She was sooo nice, beautiful, and incredibly humble in real life! She was also tiny!! Super thin and no taller than us, crazy! We didn't think it'd be appropriate to ask for a photo with her, but you can hardly tell this one's not authentic... ;)

Hahaha it was such a classically amazing LA moment, so incredible!! We CANNOT WAIT to see next week's episode now, couldn't be more in love with Game of Thrones after that wonderfully perfect encounter! Wow!!

And We Danced All Night to the Best Song Ever

Our night call on Wednesday ended up being so much FUN!! We got there at 6:00pm and went to hair and makeup (which is always a bit of a treat!) to get glammed up '80s style!! 

Sneaky selfie in the bathroom, shhhh...

We can't say too much because the project's apparently pretty top secret, but the scene we were shooting was a concert scene and the song was so catchy!! Which was great because we listened to it about a hundred times... The actors had such amazing energy and we were right in the front of the crowd, so it wasn't hard to stay pepped up! We hit overtime around 3:00am and weren't wrapped until 6:00! Ohmygoshhh SO crazy! We stopped by Maccas for hash browns and coffees, drove home like zombies, fell into bed, and slept until 12:00!

On Thursday afternoon we met up with our friend Mike to hike in Griffith Park. We'd never been up to the observatory before and the view was spectacular!!

We went Yogurtland afterwards which was pretty amazing, it's been so long since we've had fro yo!

It was a lovely afternoon and we had a great time with Mike as always. We were also feeling pretty proud of ourselves for making such an effort after our all nighter! We spent the evening hanging out at home and filling out a survey for our Beauty and the Geek audition hahah we did our best to be truthful whiiiile omitting information here and there that would give away the fact that we're actually pretty smart. We weren't convinced it'd be so easy to seem like airheads for the audition the next day though!

Our audition was at 2:00, so we spent the morning getting all dolled up and headed over to Santa Monica with plenty of time to spare. We inadvertently got into character on the way there as it was a bit of a struggle to fine the studio and we had a couple blonde moments, but we made it! 

We had to fill out another questionnaire, then we went in to meet with the casting director! She was super friendly and all we really had to do was get some pictures taken and have a conversation with her so she could see that we were engaging people - nailed it! Because they really were looking for Americans, we're thinking it'll be a push for us to get chosen. The CD said she'd keep us in mind for other shows she casts though, so who knows!

We had put way too much effort into looking our best to go straight home, so we decided to go to the Grove and have a cupcake and run some errands. It was a stunning LA day, not a cloud in the sky, and we had a lovely time wandering around and window shopping before heading home. We treated ourselves to Chinese delivery (sesame chicken and fried rice) for dinner, SO good! And we watched a wonderful blast from the past chick flick, Just Like Heaven, with Mark Ruffalo and Reese Witherspoon - what a wonderful day!

Yesterday we had the most typically great Saturday ever! We slept in, sat by the pool for a few hours, ate yummy food, and got the most glorious Easter care package EVER from Dad, Claire, Eddie and Will!

Complete with choccies, Tim Tams, Aussie boxing gloves to hang from our rear view mirrors, and the most amazing bottle opener ever created with authentic Australian kangaroo scrotum as the handle. Unreal. Hahaha thanks so much you guys!!! Then at night we had our first clubbing experience in LA!! Our friend Lex who we'd met at Sullivan's place way back when is a promoter for various clubs and invited us out to Sound with him and his friends!

The club was awesome, we made some new friends, and we danced the night away! Woohoo!!

This morning we grabbed Maccas sausage and egg mcmuffins (most amazing thing EVER) and totally rallied! Now we're spending the afternoon/evening in California Adventure for some Disney magic! So fun!!

On that LA "Grind" :)

It's been a busy week!! Fam, friends, acting, and work - what more could we ask for?! 
Starting back with Wednesday, Han worked on the show Mistresses and Luce had a chill but productive day at home. 

-- Han --

After a anxiety-inducing drive to set that took an HOUR and 45 minutes instead of the 35 minutes I was expecting, I made it to set with less than 10 minutes to spare! Phewww!! The rest of the day was pretty laid back: I met some cool people (including a really beautiful Aussie chick), played a patron in a restaurant/coffee shop, ate a lot of food, and did my best to charm a few crew members. We wrapped pretty late, right around 7:00, which meant more traffic to deal with but at least I wasn't nervous I'd be late! When I got home, Luce had made us a delicious spinach and goat's cheese omelet for dinner, yum!

-- Luce --

My Wednesday was pretty uneventful..! I had a relaxing morning and then in the afternoon I signed up with ShowFax (a service that you pay a flat rate for so you don't have to pay for each online submission to casting directors to try to get auditions) and then I started sifting through breakdown after breakdown, trying to find auditions to submit myself for! Pretty fun stuff but it also took a really long time. Eventually Han got home and we hung out and chatted for a bit and then it was off to bed for an early night because we were doing background bright and early the next morning!

On Thursday we'd both been booked on Glee!! It was sooo nice being booked together and the day was really quite fun and stress-free. It was a HUGE call, probably about 250 extras, buuut we probably shouldn't specify where! Han was chosen for a little bit that seemed like it'd be pretty featured - but it turned out it didn't even make it in the shot haha - which was to walk down the escalator ahead of two of the cast members. The tricky part was she had to start in the same spot each time when the scene started, which meant walking backwards up the escalator while they took their time to say action! It was a good work out though and it was kinda fun to be the center of attention for a few seconds. We got to see heaps of the cast members and, although we haven't watched the show for a while, it was awesome to see them in real life! We saw Darren Criss (who plays Blaine *swoon*), Lea Michelle (Rachel. She was gorgeous in real life and so tiny!), Chris Colfer (Kurt), Heather Morris (Brittany. Amaaazing dancer ohmygod), Kevin McHale (Artie), Amber Riley (Mercedes. Also tiny in real life, everyone's so much smaller than they seem on camera!), and Chord Overstreet (Sam. SO cute in person, wow!). It was so cool!! They were filming a music number and by the end of the day it was stuuuck in our heads to say the least! We felt pretty lucky to've been paid for such a cool day's work! It was a long day though and we were glad to go home when we were wrapped at 5:00. We watched Short Term 12 when we got home and it was such an incredible movie! The acting was amazing!! A very fun, tiring LA day. 

We weren't booked for Friday which actually worked out perfectly because Samantha asked us to come into the bakery to work for a few hours. It was a busy lunch hour and Han was still feeling a liiiittle unsure of her coffee-making abilities, but we made it through okay with minimal mistakes on all accounts! After leaving work we headed to the shops to get a Mother's Day present for Mum because we were celebrating early this year as Mum and Q will be in Hawaii on the actual day, lucky them!! We did a goodie bag of Bronzed Aussie treats, Lush bath products (suuuuch a hippie store, wow! The sales woman quote of that experience was "and this bath bomb actually has real marigold petals inside" hahaha what?), and Godiva chocolates (where Han shamelessly asked for two samples), all in a special Disney cup! We felt great about the prezzie and couldn't wait to give it to mum the next day! We went home, had dinner, watched Don Jon, and went to bed.

Saturday was our early Mother's Day, yaayy!! We had such a lovely time and the day we'd planned went perfectly. Mum and Q picked us up at our place and we gave mum her prezzie (success! She loved it!) then we drove to Geoffrey's, a beautiful restaurant in Malibu, for brunch. We went past the Bachelor house on the way there which was fun and when we arrived at the restaurant we were totally blown away! The view was breathtaking, the service was great, and the food was amazing!! We all had baked Brie and crab cakes to start, then Luce and I had the best eggs Benedict's of our lives, Mum had a quiche, and Q had chicken piccata - soooo good! Ahh! That combined with the stunningly perfect weather and lovely conversation made for a perfect Mother's Day meal.

Next on the agenda, we took Mum and Q to El Matador beach - our regular spot - and went for a lovely walk along the sand.

We took the scenic route home through Topanga Canyon and stopped to grab drinks, then Mum and Q dropped us back at our place and headed home themselves, keen to rescue the doggies from the hot weather. It was a beautiful day and we were so glad we got to plan and celebrate it so fully! We had a dip in the hot tub at our apartment and went to bed pretty early because the next day was baker's hours for us! Up bright and early!!

The reason we were up so early was that Samantha was having us represent her to cater the Celebrity Ashes cricket match in LA!! We lucked out with that job assignment! After picking up the pies at the bakery in the good old Subi and grabbing a couple last-minute things from Smart & Final, we headed over to the cricket grounds in Van Nuys. It was a bit if a struggle to find the rendezvous point, but when we got there we were met by many smiling Aussies and Brits keen to get some pies! We set up - in the shade with a great view of the match, nice - and the pies started getting snapped up! 

After several hours, many interactions with cute men (MoMA continues?), a great back and forth with the funny coffee guy Mark, and a couple celebrity sightings (Piers Morgan and Nigel Lythgoe, both of whom bought a pie!), we'd sold out and, with the Aussies sure to win, decided to head home. We truly couldn't believe we'd gotten paid for that. We probably would've gone to the event anyway! It was a funny sort of two-worlds-collide day, kind of like Anzac Day, where we were in the middle of LA but might as well have been back in Aus!

We were only at home for a couple hours until it was time to go to our GoT night with Nick, Mike, and Eddie. It was heaps of fun as always and Nick made another delicious dinner for us to go along with Luce's yummy cookies! The episode didn't disappoint either, such a great show!! Made even better by watching it with awesome people.

On Monday Han had been invited to play beach volleyball with Andrew (who she went on a hike with last week) and his friends. Han, surprisingly, didn't embarrass herself at all! There was a great group of people there and it felt great to be outdoors and active, really fun! When Han got back we went straight to Bronzed Aussie for coffee training with cute Aussie Sam. It was great! We're feeling confident on the coffee machine and it was really chill working with just us and Sam there. Nice one :)

Yesterday Luce had an audition!! SO exciting!!! And Han was working on the show Awkward as a high school student, too real..! 

-- Luce --

My day was fantastic! My audition submissions of last week started to pay off and I was chosen to audition for a Ford commercial! Woohoo! The audition was at 11:50 so I got there extra early and it was lucky I did because when I got there the line to sign-up was almost out the door!! Ah! So I got in line and then, luckily for me, a woman was going around and moving girls who were over 18 to the front of the line! Yay! So I signed in and was put with a group of two guys to read with. The guys were really nice and we hit it off immediately! We all got super fired up and were in the audition room in what felt like minutes, even though we had been waiting for a good half hour..! When I got in, it turned out that I wasn't reading for the teenage role like I thought, I was actually reading for the mid-twenties role! Gahhh! Luckily there weren't too many lines to memorize on the spot and I took it all in stride. It was a quick scene and after doing it a couple times that was it! Just like that the audition was over and I left feeling great about my performance. 

I headed home and after chilling out for a little bit I got a Facebook message from a Casting Director in LA asking me to audition for a reality TV show in Australia..! Ha! It's called "Beauty and the Geek" and on the show 7 hot girls are paired with 7 nerdy guys and they bond and compete for a huge cash prize at the end..! So bizarre! So I responded and she asked me to come in for an audition on Friday! Wooo! And even better - I asked if she'd like to do some sort of cute-twins thing so that Han and I could audition together and she seemed super excited about that idea! So so funny..! Han and I are still trying to weigh the pros and cons of pretending to be American airheads on national TV in Australia but it could be fun! The audition on Friday should make for a great story regardless :) 

-- Han --

It was sooo strange being on a set as a high school student! Everyone seemed so young and at one point we had to look like we were stressed about taking an exam, too real! Haha despite that, it was a fun day. I wasn't called until 10:00 and the stages were only 15 minutes away. It ended up being over a 12 hour shoot though, woah! But the crew was really chill and I made some friends, so no complaints! They also had a daaangerously yummy selection of cookies and chips for us to snack on. I held out for as long as I could, but when 9:30 hit it was all over haha ahh well! No regrets! I also chatted with two of the main guys which was kinda cool and sat right in front of the lead girls in the classroom scene, so hopefully I made it into the shot! 

Today we both had a well deserved sleep in and veeeery lazy morning! We're called on the same night call (a shoot that starts in the afternoon and goes through until morning!) tonight, so we're resting up and saving our energy for later. We're stoked to've both been booked on it, should be a fun night!!