Wow, the other day I got this email from some stranger on the internet. A voice out of the ether. The person found my blog and was inspired by one of my pictures to draw a portrait of me, and she sent it along. I felt honored and almost famous. I imagine Tom Hanks gets hundreds of these. Check it out. I posted the email and the portrait.

Dear Mr. Foley,

I just saw your blog today and really like it. After seeing the pictures you posted of you in costume for Ricky Gervais’s movie, I was inspired to do a portrait of your “serious” headshot, which still makes me laugh even though it is supposed to be serious. In fact, it makes me laugh more than the smiling headshot. I guess you are just a naturally funny character.

Attached is the portrait I drew. I am an aspiring actor as well, but maybe I should be an artist instead, I clearly have huge amounts of drawing skill.

Drew

‘Tis all for Now!

Wow, it has been over a month since my last post. The reason is mainly that not much is going on in the acting world right now. All the big projects that were green-lighted and ready to come in to town are on hold. The reason being that my union, the Screen Actors Guild, could possibly strike at the end of the month. The production companies do not want to start a movie going, only to have the actors strike in the first few weeks of production. Once the negotiations are settled, and a new contract is made things will start hopping again. But basically there have been no auditions for big industry projects since May. I figure there will be no auditions till late July.

On the small budget front I do have 2 projects lined up for the summer. And I had an audition for another last Monday. I feel I did really well and am hopeful I got a role. So this will be nice to at least have some work for the summer.

‘Tis all for Now!