Couldn't be Happier!

The last few days we've been back and forth to Chambers' working on our own scenes, watching other people's scenes, and workshopping some new material. Very productive! We're really so lucky to have such a great coach who gives us so much of his time and such great opportunities. 

We've eaten like queens too! We've had salads, granola/yogurt/honey/strawberries for brekkie, poached eggs, and Luce baked the most delicious brown sugar cupcakes with peanut butter cream cheese icing!! Yum! We also walked down Hollywood Blvd with our friend Mike - from our first night of background - and had the most glorious, decadent Ghirardelli ice creams, mmmm...

We hadn't fully realized how long it might take, though, and had to move the car at 4:00. The ice cream was too great to leave, though, so Han stayed until the last second and at 3:50, ran, like seriously RAN back to the car! Hahaha only on Hollywood Blvd would that not be cause for too many raised eyebrows.. It was worth the effort though, Han got to the car at EXACTLY 4:00, a little the worse for wear.

The real triumph of the week, though, was yesterday. We made our decision and signed with the Shirley Wilson & Associates Talent Agency!! We couldn't be happier or more excited!!! We're hoping it's the start of something big and we have total faith in our agent, Gregory - he's awesome and seems really excited to have us on board! After we'd signed all the paperwork, we had a little task list from him. We had to stop by Anthony's (the photographer who took our headshots) because we lost the CDs with all of our photos haha oops.. Then we sent Gregory our best pics and signed up with three different acting websites where jobs are posted in addition to the ones the agencies have access to. It felt GREAT to get it all done - we never want to retype our resumes again! We feel like we're getting some momentum up and we finally have everything lined up to get out there and start auditioning!! Yeeee! We're on our way out to Mum and Q's now to see them, do our laundry, and have a celebratory dinner tonight! 

Galentine's Day!!

We're a little behind on the blog but we've had an eventful few days!

Thursday was a recovery day from all the excitement of the start of the week. We hiked Runyon Canyon (which was bloody difficult, but hopefully gave us some killer leg/butt muscle) and then spent the rest of the day chilling out, working on our online modeling portfolio things, watching True Blood, and eating yummy food.

On Valentine's - or, more accurately, Galentine's - Day we treated ourselves to a couple fun things! We worked out and had a second meeting with an agency to talk about their contracts, and then came the fun part of the day! We got the yummiest boba ever and picked up ingredients for (relatively) healthy chocolate cupcakes! Luce baked up a storm when we got home and they were absolutely DELICIOUS!! We had one each then went to the Universal City Walk for some rockin sushi and the long-awaited Winter's Tale. 

The sushi was great buuut the movie.. not so much. We certainly wouldn't recommend it, but it was bad to the point of being laughable so it was still quite fun to watch! And Jessica Brown-Findlay (Sibyl on Downton Abbey!!) was actually really lovely. We satisfied our want for a love story when we got home by watching The Bachelor!! Aaand you know a chick flick's bad when The Bachelor has a better love story in it! It was a lovely Valentine's Day though and, barring having an actual Valentine, what more could you hope for than chocolate and chick flicks?

The weekend was great too and went by so quickly! Han was working on a student film at Chapman which, though the role was pretty small, was really fun! The cast and crew were so, so nice and it looks like it's going to end up being a good little film. Here're a couple pics from on set:

Yesterday was a looong day though and it felt great to get home (after midnight, oh my gosh!) and be able to sleep in a bit this morning.

While Han was at Chapman, Luce spent Saturday at Disney with Mum and Q!! They had a great time AND they saw Penny from the Big Bang Theory!!

Yesterday Luce had a very chill day at home, watching movies, working on lines for a couple scripts and eating home-made cookie dough - perfect Sunday!

Today we had one (we think final!) agent meeting! We went to the agency we're pretty sure we're going to sign with, had a chat, and picked up contracts to look over! Hopefully we'll be signed and ready to go by the end of the week!! SO EXCITING!!!

This afternoon we worked on a project with two of our guy friends, they came over and we read through a reeaaally long but very funny script, an afternoon well spent! We had a light dinner (one of our "2" days on the diet, although it's really hard to decide if it's worth it/doing anything haha) and now we're watching No Strings Attached - Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher are so wonderful!! 

Wow, our lives have become such a crazy, wonderful whirlwind and it's kind of unbelievable!

Settling into this LA life :)

On Wednesday we did everything we set out to and then some! We worked out, stuck to our diet, and decorated - here's the finished paint chip wall:

When Han moved the Sentra, this little flyer was wedged into the door haha subtle..

The day was yet young, so we organized to meet with Chambers to talk over all our agency options. It was SUCH a successful meeting! He approved of our number one agency and helped us figure out a game plan moving forward. He also asked us to be part of a couple really exciting acting opportunities coming up! The first one's that we're going to be part of a workshop of Chambers's monologues and scenes next week!! There's a successful producer from the valley who's interested in creating a theatre festival showcasing young talent - so we're working hard to make sure we impress him, very exciting!

After seeing Chambers we went home for a little while, had a light dinner (even though we could've eaten a small cow between us.. Or one each...), then went to the Universal City Walk to watch a movie! It's SUCH a cool spot: bright lights, yummy smells (painfully yummy), and a beautiful movie theatre! 

We watched That Awkward Moment and it was really good! Miles Teller and Zac Efron are just gorgeous and there were a couple really talented fresh faces in it, which is always encouraging and exciting to see! We were a little disappointed by the prospect of dating any guy in his 20s if that's an accurate look into what massive jerks they are, though! We're confident (well, hopeful) that we'll be the game changers rather than the girls on the "roster".

Yesterday Han had another agency meeting which went really well! It was after two mini panic attacks: 1) went to move the Sentra back because street cleaning on the other side of the street is Thursdays, IT WASN'T THERE!! No no no no no!!! But actually false alarm, it was there! Just further down the street than she remembered, nice...

2) Got to the agency address and IT WASN'T THERE!! No no no no no!!! (Bit of a theme of the morning) Googled the address, wrong address! Gahh! Double checked the email, right address! Phewww! False alarm, it was there! Just tucked in behind another building. The lady was lovely and said some really nice things! It probably won't be the one, though, because we want to capitalize on the sister thing - but it was still worth going and checking it out!

After that, we went to Starbucks to mooch their wifi again and got asked out on a date by a seriously sketchy, redbull-drinking guy named Bear. Eeek! Stranger danger!! We SO didn't know what to do, so we just avoided committing in any way and never called him - is that bad? We decided it was time to leave shortly after that encounter and went to the Samuel French Bookshop on Sunset Blvd to read some plays and acting books for a couple hours.

After that we headed home and tidied the apartment up to make it perfect because Mum and Q were coming over for tea/to see our appartment all set up on their way to dinner with friends. They were super impressed and helped us with the rest of our decorating! We now have framed posters of Marilyn and Audrey watching over us and a couple inspirational wall decals keeping us motivated!

JT came over after they'd left and we had dinner (Salmon and veggies!) together and caught up on everything that's been going on this last week and a half! It was great to see him and we're excited that now we're only 15 minutes away from quite a few friendly faces!

To top the night off, we finished The Avengers - on the TV because Mum and Q had brought over the DVD player!! Yeee! - and it was just wonderfully inspiring and satisfying, so freaking cool!

This morning, we got all ready to workout then CRASH!!! Ahhh!! The light fixture in the wardrobe FELL and SHATTERED EVERYWHERE!! We saw our lives flash before our eyes because we'd JUST been in there! So scary!! 

We called Rita, the manager, and she came up to have a look and help us clean it up - she's such a sweetie, our wonderful, Brazilian apartment mum. Anyway, we made it down to the gym, worked out hard, spent half an hour in the sauna (love it!) and went back up to wait for the Time Warner Cable guy to come save us from the agonies of internetlessness and creepy guys in Starbucks. We had a delish salad for lunch, the TWC man came and set up the internet no worries (SO happy we have internet, YAAAYYY!), we packed up a weekend bag, and now we're on the road to Corona for a weekend at Mum and Q's! Woo!!

And it was juuuust right!

On Monday it was back to business with another talent agency interview!! We'd been told to prepare a monologue each and that there'd be sides for us to read, so we spent the morning refreshing our favourite monologues and practicing cold readings - we made a fair bit of progress actually! We went to the interview/audition, filled out paperwork, did our thing, and it went SO WELL! We really clicked with this agent and he seemed to have a lot of confidence and belief in us right off the bat. We're thinking he very well might be the agent for us! It was an incredibly successful meeting, and we headed home feeling hopeful and excited! We were still pretty exhausted from all the hard work of the past couple days (well, really weeks) so we spent the rest of the day hanging out at home. One thing that was top priority was getting the gas for the stove/oven to work!! We'd called the gas company and the lady had said there must be a pilot light issue, but we were pretty sure that there wasn't any gas at all coming through.. So we looked around, moved the stove and found a knob that looked like it controlled the gas flow! BUT it wouldn't move. Like, not even a tiny bit. We pulled and heaved and tried our best but ended up calling the maintenance guy because we weren't even sure we were on the right track. He came up and we told him the problem, he took one look at the stove, turned the knob with one hand as if it was a faucet, and ta da! The burners worked!! It was slightly embarrassing but he was super nice and probably relieved it was such an easy job. We (well, mostly Lucy) cooked up the most DELICIOUS turkey burgers for dinner. We put goats cheese inside them, then topped them off with spinach, mushrooms, olives, a fried egg each, and BBQ sauce. So good!! We watched most of The Avengers on Lucy's computer (until it decided it had had enough and wouldn't play the disc) then fell faaaast asleep.

Yesterday was another rockin interview/errands day. We had our last joint interview scheduled for 2:00, so we ran out to Trader Joes for healthy snacks, Home Depot for paint chips (we'll explain later), and Starbucks for wifi (it's been a bit of a struggle without internet, we're craving HBO GO in a serious way aaand having some difficulties with stuff our phones just can't quite manage). After Starbucks we had our meeting! It went well, no issues, but they really didn't wow us - also, they don't have a theatrical department so we'd only be able to audition for commercials. It's looking like Monday's agency is the one we'll go with! We just still want to get a couple more opinions on it and make absolutely sure it's the right choice with our heads as well as our hearts.

We wanted to connect our computers to the TV to watch movies, so we went to RadioShack to pick up an HDMI cable (GREAT service haha the two guys both jumped to help us out, very funny. One of them recognized our accents and knew Summer Heights High so we had a great chat with him) then came home. Han called up Time Warner Cable and set up internet - they're coming to install it on Friday, YAY! - while Luce sorted our yummy snacks into little snack bags. Next up, Han opened up the HDMI cable to get that sorted aaaaand womp womp, it wouldn't fit into the plug in the computer!! Lameeee! Han went back to RadioShack and found a cable with a medium sized plug on one end and a regular plug on the other. The guy at the store (not the Summer Heights High one, the other one) insisted we needed a "micro" rather than a "mini" though, so Han got the even smaller one and went home. IT WAS TOO SMALL! Feeling waaay too much like Goldilocks, Han went BACK to RadioShack, got the bloody medium sized plug cable, came home, aaaand: it was just right. The plugs fit and it looked good to go, but after a lot of "no signal" and some heavy googling of "PC to TV HDMI won't work" without success, we had to concede defeat. We'll have Q help us out next time he's in LA - quite likely we'll have another situation like the one with maintenance guy on our hands!

Meanwhile, while the RadioShack saga was going on for Han, Luce was working on our latest decor addition to the apartment! We'd gotten one of just about every colour paint chip from Home Depot, and Lucy designed the cutest rainbow of swatches to put on our wall! We ended up actually putting them up after dinner, in a remarkably cohesive team effort, and it looks GREAT! SO happy with it!! We still have some blues and purples to do today, but here's what we have so far:

Dinner, though, was an equally masterful effort from Luce - so freakin yummy!! We had three potato (potato, orange sweet potato, and white sweet potato) pancakes, grilled chicken, and roasted veggies, mm mmm! 

We watched Silver Linings Playbook (which Lucy's computer survived until the end of!) and called it a night.

Today was have plans to exercise, not eat a lot (we're trying this 5 and 2 diet where two days a week you only eat 500-600 calories), move the Sentra because there's street cleaning on Wednesdays, mooch the Starbucks wifi again, finish the paint chip wall, and go to the movies tonight! Should be a lovely day!!

So much driiiivinggggg.. But worth it!

More errands and interviews today - and more success! We headed into LA AGAIN from Corona (we're seeeriously racking up the miles this week, WOW) and made it to the agency with about an hour to spare! We went to Starbucks for coffees and headed back to the building with a good 25 minutes early. And by "went back to the building" we mean went to where Google maps had told us to go... Which turned out to be either a Quiznos or a Verizon store..! Uhhh what?!! With out heartbeats a little accelerated, we walked up and down the street, double checked the address, looked back at the confirmation email - ahh! The confirmation email! It had instructions for how to get to the right building! Good news was that we WERE in the right place! We ran around the back of the Verizon store, up some stairs, across a rooftop carpark, and -- there it was!! Phewww! We were still there with a good 10 minutes extra but it was closer than we'd meant, eeek! We took a couple deep breaths and Luce went in for her interview while Han waited...

-- Luce -- 

My interview was going quite well but it was hard to get a read on whether or not the guy was interested in signing me (especially because my cold reading wasn't the most compelling performance). He gave me a bit of a spiel about the agency then asked me if I had any questions. The question that came out of my mouth, somewhat involuntarily, was "umm.. I'm finding it hard to get a good read on how you feel.. Do you like me?" hahaha I don't even really remember what he said back, I don't think he was expecting quite that honest of a response! Anyway, the conversation came around to me asking if he'd be interested in marketing us as twins, or at least sisters, and he said "great idea" and brought Han in!

-- Han and Luce --

Once we were both in there together it got easier and much more fun! Han did a cold reading (which wasn't stellar either but wasn't terrible - definitely a skill to work on!) and she asked a few questions. He really liked the idea of marketing us as sisters and he seemed pretty interested in us! We got a great vibe from him, but we won't know for a few days whether or not he'd like to sign us. He told us he doesn't sign multiple people that fill the same category, so he has to look through his current clients before he can be sure about us. He was a great mix of down-to-business, supportive, and friendly, so we're pretty hopeful that he'll become a solid option for us, but we're also feeling confident because we have some great agencies already interested and a couple more each lined up!

After our interviews we headed over to the new apartment to take some measurements before move-in day! We're just as in love with the place as we were before - we CANNOT WAIT to get in there! Especially now that we've been back in the car to Corona for 2 hours and are looking at another hour at least until we get home, waahh! :( 

(Luce doing her hair haha)

We really can't complain though because things couldn't be going better for us right now and we are SO thankful! That and we won't have to do the drive tomorrow because it's packing/getting ready to move day! Woooo!!!

Represent!

We had another crazy/successful day today! We went back into LA for more meetings with agencies! Han had her first meeting at 12:00 and after a bit of a rush to get out of the house and a looong drive, we were there! And it was time for Hannah's first interview...

--Han--

I got there plenty early and went over to the board in the lobby to check which room I had to go to. There was another guy there who was meeting with the same agency - it turned out, at the same time! Soo it looked like I wouldn't be alone! There ended up being four of us interviewed at the same time which, though efficient, didn't seem like the best way to do it.. They were all really interesting people though, and asked some questions I wouldn't have thought of, so it worked out pretty well! The agent really liked my look and, even though my resume's a little bare, she was interested in signing me! It felt great to have a definite interested agency and it also made the next interview easier because I knew what to expect. I met Luce outside and we were on to the next one, feeling extremely lucky and blessed to have OPTIONS for representation!! So surreal!

--Luce--

While Hannah was at her interview I discovered that the Beverly Center shopping mall was only 5 minutes away! Yay! I had been really feeling the need to go shopping so this was the perfect opportunity! I spent some time in Sephora and H&M and bought some really nice stuff, but I quickly realized that I don't really like shopping by myself... It makes me really self conscious! But in no time Han was done with her interview and I raced back to see how it went!!!

--Han & Luce--

After a great de-briefing in the car we were off to the next interview. This time it was for the two of us together! Very exciting!! We arrived at a swanky building and accidentally parked the car ourselves in a valet-only parking lot! Ooops! Luckily the valet guys were really nice and it wasn't an issue at all. 

We went up to the office and waited for the agent to see us (we were a bit early). After a few minutes the agent called us in and our meeting had begun! And it went fabulously! The agent seemed to have a very clear plan for how he was going to market us and play to our strengths. He was a very no-nonsense kind of guy and we got the feeling that if he didn't want to represent us, he definitely would've told us (and he didn't, so yay!!) All in all, we thought that the interview went very well and we're pretty excited about this agency! 

To celebrate all of our hard work starting to pay off, we went to The Cheesecake Factory afterwards to have a delicious piece of cheesecake! Yum! And then it was a long drive back to Corona, and for a while we were stuck in traffic behind THE UGLIEST back-of-a-head we'd ever seen!

Haha we had to change lanes just so we could spare ourselves from watching the balding man twist his dreadlocks... Ewww... 

We finally got back to Corona and relaxed then Luce cooked dinner for the fam (Mum and Q are practically bedridden with the flu, poor things) and Han vacuumed and did the laundry. Pretty sure we're the best kids ever ;) 

Now it's time for a couple episodes of Girls then bed - we need a good night's sleep so we're rested for more interviews tomorrow!

Wahooooo!!

Yesterday was AWESOME!! Yeee it ended up being a much more eventful day than we'd expected! We woke up at a reasonable time and, around 11:00, both checked our emails to find that... an agency was interested in interviewing both of us!! AHH! YAAAY! We were SO over-the-top excited, we could hardly contain ourselves!!! AND THEN about an hour later, Han got a call from another agent who wanted to meet with both of us together!! Woooo!!! We were stoked! By 12:30 on the day the envelopes would have been delivered, we already had two interviews lined up!

We decided it was high time we went down to the SAG/AFTRA offices and sorted out our eligibility status. We'd gotten our principle contracts back in November but they still hadn't been processed, so, with our fingers crossed, we made the hour and a half trip back into LA to see what we could do. The offices were really beautiful. We got directed to the 7th floor and waited for someone to see us. A little while later, a man came out, asked us for our paperwork and absolutely nothing else, told us to hold on, and disappeared again. About 15 minutes later he was back! He said "there you go" and gave us a little piece of paper with two account numbers on it and that was that! We couldn't believe it!! Too easy - and now it's truly official!!! SAG eligible babyyy! On the way out Luce got ANOTHER call from an agent!! Yeee! He was a commercial agent and wanted to see her the next day (today!). Feeling so happy and confident and ready to rock some interviews this week, we went for a celebratory boba and headed home! On the drive back we had a long overdue and absolutely wonderful conversation with Tim! It was so great to catch up with him and he made the drive pass much quicker - which was great because we desperately needed to pee the whole way back! 

We spent the night watching The Bachelor and Girls, and emailing in some more submissions to other agencies - hopefully we can keep the ball rolling!

Today Luce had her first interview and Han had grand plans of productivity while she was out..

-- Han --

There were about 30 agencies left to contact by email or online, so I sat down to whip them out when - nooooo! The internet wasn't working!! What?! Apparently Time Warner Cable was having some issues (which means no TV either, waahh), so I went with Q to Starbucks to use their wifi aaaaand they must also be on Time Warner - or just having issues. In a last effort to find an oasis of gloriously high (or even low) speed internet, we drove almost half an hour to another Starbucks AND -- nothing. Womp womp. However! On the plus side, I got an email while we were out and about and another agency is interested in seeing me!! YAAYY! Not for another two weeks, though, so I won't be able to update for a while. Anyway, Q and I drove home and, ironically enough, the internet was working again! I banged out some emails buuut it was short-lived, so I'm currently writing the blog on my phone, praying to the internet gods, and waiting for Luce to get back from her interview!! So freakin excited for her!!!

-- Luce --

Oh my goodness what an amazing day! I drove into LA at 11:30 to make it to my 2:00 meeting with plenty of time to spare! I was sooooooo nervous! And to add to the anxiety, by the end of the car trip I was completely busting for the loo!! So I went inside half an hour early and searched for a toilet.. Luckily, I found one on the 6th floor of the building and a woman was nice enough to give me the bathroom key - phewwww! So by 1:45 I was ready at the Agent's office and at 1:50 I knocked on the door and the interview had begun! It went surprisingly well!! The Agent, Elton, was really friendly and he seemed to genuinely like me a lot! He said that I had a "fresh and exotic look" and even though he had originally called me as a commercial client, he was talking about tv shows that I could be on in no time which was so cool! He had some really interesting tips and recommendations and by the end of the interview I felt like he had gotten a good sense of who I am and vice versa :) and the interview ended with him asking me to let him know my decision soon so I feel like the ball is pretty much in my court which is just such an exciting result from my first meeting!! Yay! I left the office very relieved and drove for an hour and a half back to Corona, got a coffee at Starbucks and flirted with a really cute guy, and then got home! Woo! What a wonderful day. Feeling very blessed :)