Rachel Kiley
One director is looking like the world’s biggest jerk after he failed to mute his mic while trashing an actor’s apartment during a Zoom audition.
Lukas Gage shared a 30-second video of the awkward encounter to Twitter on Friday.
While the video only shows Gage, a man with a British accent can be heard complaining to someone else about the frame the actor has set up for his audition.
“These poor people live in these tiny apartments, like I’m looking at his background and he’s got his TV—“ he says.
When Gage realizes what’s going on, he interrupts the director to stop him from embarrassing himself further. He also does his best to play the whole thing off, telling the director that he should give him the job so he can get a better apartment.
At the end, the director apologizes and says he’s “mortified,” before they presumably get on with the audition.
psa if youre a shit talking director make sure to mute ur shit on zoom mtgings pic.twitter.com/PTgMZcRhEw
— lukas gage (@lukasgage) November 20, 2020
It was a painful 30 seconds to watch, and was undoubtedly an even more painfully awkward 30 seconds to live through, and now fellow actors and entertainment industry professionals are showing Gage their support.
Actors are often (not always but often) treated like garbage and taken advantage of because “we’re just lucky to have a job” and “we’re gonna take the job anyway” etc etc. It’s very fucked up. https://t.co/z8YbVScAW3
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) November 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/lukasgage/status/1330001495442427904
oh hey 🙂 see u at duo 😝
— lukas gage (@lukasgage) November 21, 2020
And people had some less-than-kind responses for the director.
https://twitter.com/julianwelton/status/1329929983050051586
And we wonder why students are reluctant to share their screens. Amazing how badly people can suck. : /
— Elli England (@ThatsMissElli) November 21, 2020
Of course, there’s also the part where the apartment itself actually looks pretty nice.
Gage has amassed a variety of credits over the past few years, including roles in American Vandal, Euphoria, and the upcoming Angelyne limited series, and it seems apparent that he’s been able to get a decent place for himself thanks to that consistent work. If this director saw the apartments most 25-year-olds living in Los Angeles or New York can afford, he may just faint.
https://twitter.com/JuddApatow/status/1330005484745551879
https://twitter.com/thatjillian/status/1329947298462371842
https://twitter.com/reillytweets/status/1329969264665608199
Doing everything over Zoom has made things difficult for all of us, and it’s not like we can all just pop down to the local coffee shop for a casual mid-pandemic meeting with a different backdrop. It would be nice to imagine that people have learned to be more understanding and less judgmental after we’ve all lived like this for over eight months, but Gage’s video proves some people will hold onto their condescension until the whole world crumbles around them. What a choice.
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