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"Secret UFO base in the mountains"

"Oh, yeah That one was heavy sci-fi What did you think of it?" he asked, al hopeful

I pursed my lips and sneered

"What’s that reaction about?" he countered

"Aliens?" I think I rolled e diversion fro that interests you?"

He shrugged He seeoal here? Ian actor, what kind of actor did you want to be?"

"Brando!" he stated with admiration "I wanted to be Marlon Brando The Godfather, you know! I can’t tell you howto ie and act"

Ryan sat down at the table withabout Gary Cooper – hoould have delivered it I can only hope to be in that league as an actor one day That would be the ultimate!"

"Well then, there’s your direction If that’s the perception you want people to have when they think of you as an actor, then you need to position yourself correctly in the right roles Isn’t that so you with? I et you there"

"They’re just trying to get ot to take what you can get sometimes," he responded

"I don’t know about that By the looks of it I think you could afford to be a little more choosey" I patted the nine scripts under my hand "Perhaps if you needed a paycheck you could consider some of these, but I think that if you want your dreams to come true then you need to point yourself in their direction" I held up the script for The Isletin Solution

He sht Hey, after dinner we need to run lines for Slipknot again"

I s hiet into character

I tried to "act" when I read the lines instead of just reading fro ether We rehearsed so often that I was starting to ue of the other characters and the feelings they were intending to portray in each scene

Ryan did have a cool job It was oddly liberating "pretending" and feeling permitted to have different emotions and reactions fro