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The other day I recieved a call from a modeling agency that I have never heard of before, asking me to come in for a casting (audition) for a job in the sea side town of Phuket (yes, the same one that was destroyed by the Tsunami).
When is the job? 3rd week of April, OK that's fine I am free then. What is the job? A fashion show....
A FASHION SHOW? Me?
OK, since I have now appeared in 2 fashion magazine photos shoots, this is one of those things that could only happen in Asia. I agree and head into the office next day.
On arrival at the office I realised why I had not heard of or seen this agency before, it was a sub-branch of Elite, a major serious modeling agency. One of the ones on the list I never visited as I am not a model (well I have had preivous jobs in the west as a body model), and as such I only went to see the acting agents.
So I sit and wait with a couple of Eastern European models and wait for the casting agent. As a side note there are many ex-soviet block women working here as professional models. The ones I have met seem to mostly be Ukranian, Uzbekistan, and a few Russians. The one thing in common that they say they like is the weather. Never having been through a Russian winter I can only guess how nice it is to be in Thailand during that time of year.
I sit and wait and eventually get called up to an office, they take the standard model look photos, then I do a few more with shirt off.
My only guess as to why I was called in for the audition is that I am one of the very few guys in all of Thailand that is taller than a tall model in heels.
Lets see what happens, personally I would like to do this as it is different to other work I have done before and I would love a paid vacation in Phuket- though in the past I have been a security guard at some rather prestigious fashion shows back in Sydney.
UPDATE: I did not get a call back, not surprising at all, but I am curious as to how they got my telephone number in the first place.
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