How to be cast in a romantic comedy
[friend asked for this story, so I’m posting it]
After college I decided to go into movies. I’m a terrible actor, but as a young, 6’ Chinese guy, I made a good human prop—also called an movie extra or background performer.
Got an agent to pimp me out and ended up on a Jeep Cherokee commercial, a Rascalz music video, and on the set of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days starting Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey.
There’s a scene in How to Lose a Guy when Matthew McConaughey is looking around the bar to find the next woman he’ll seduce. He sees a coarse blonde woman, chugging a beer. A skanky, lascivious girl, checkout out some guy.
Then he sees Kate Hudson, and is smitten.
That guy being checked out by the skanky girl?
That’s me (in blue shirt).
My split second of fame. You can see it at the 29 second mark in the video below:
