Post by Jordan Comstock on Jul 25, 2016 11:51:03 GMT
PHOENIX JORDAN COMSTOCK
PLAY BY: Lana Parrilla
♦ THE BASICS ♦
AGE: Thirty-Three
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Homosexual
POSITION: Agent @ The Red Room♦ THE FREEFORM ♦I ALWAYS SAW YOUDarling? It's me. I know we haven't talked in a while, and I'm so sorry for that. It's my fault, but Ensign just landed his first big movie and he wanted to celebrate.
FOR WHAT YOU COULD HAVE BEEN
Strictly work, baby, I swear!
But you know how it is. You can't get offside with these actor-types or you'll never get called again. They'll think you left them in their hour of need and then BAM! They're across the road at whats-his-name’s working crappy jobs for decent wage.
All they see is the latter, sweetheart. That's what I'm saying.
Well, have you considered the fact that that's why you never made it in the business?
I'll be home when I'm home. You know the rules.EVEN WHEN IT'S BUSINESSI started in this business as a model over ten years ago. Young, fresh-faced and wide eyed. Naive. It was a whirlwind experience with too much steam and not enough reason. You learn a lot about yourself when you see your face on a magazine. Then two. Then two more. It snowballs, and to be honest, trying to maintain and kind of civil attitude was next to impossible.
WITH YOU, IT'S PERSONAL AGAIN
I practically lived through my agent. Everything I printed was something I wanted her to see first. She'd talk me down when I got too heated. She'd clean up all the negative things I wanted to say. I was as clean as I could be thanks to all that.
Of course, now that I'm older and I'm in that chair, things are so different. It's not just a print ad or two. It's the explosion of social media. Instagram. Twitter. Hell, even Tumblr can get you into hot water if people figure out it’s you. There's that much more to look out for these days that you have to be more involved.
You have to be ruthless in your involvement. A short leash. Let them think they've got a mile when you're only giving an inch.YOU SIT AND YOU PREYNever sleep with a client. Now that, my dear, is first and foremost. Everyone who does gets far too invested and loses sight of their career goals. You can't be managed if you're handling that much stress on top of your usual stress. Don't get me wrong, people always try. They can't help themselves.
HOPING THAT THE STARS ALIGN
Marry the job, too. If you want to be really good at it, you can't get mixed up in anything personal. You are this person's everything now. You have to take those 2am phone calls. You have to be at that premier from the time it starts till the time your star wants to go home.
Don't have kids, either. You're practically a parent already.MY LUCK IS A SURE THING
BECAUSE I'M LIVING RIGHT
The ex-husband wanted kids. Thank God that's over with. I had to cut him loose. He wanted the dream life, not just the dream home.
I definitely wasn't sleeping with Ensign; he was a baby-faced gem of an actor with too much baggage.
His sister, though. Well, she had nothing to do with the job.
But that was seven years ago now. They're both long gone.EVERYBODY THAT I MET ON THE WAY
TRIES TO GET IN THE WAY
My parents always liked the name Phoenix. I'm not sure why, as I'm not sure it's even a name. It's one of the few things you can't choose about your life, they say, so you just learn to deal with it. Don't you?
Well, it's different when you get a platform beneath your feet. It was my first agent that said the name wasn't worth the ridicule. So we dropped it. It's not exactly a secret, but it got buried with the entire former life. And once you get big enough, you cast a shadow. That's the shadow that keeps the rest of that in the dark.
It's just the business, baby. You need someone who's lived it to help you live it.♦ THE PLAYER ♦
USERNAME: Eddie
AGE GROUP: Twenty-five
EXPERIENCE: 10 years
WHERE DID YOU FIND US? baeeee
