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Quiet often as an Actor you will get an acting audition, you'll go to the casting call and deliver a spectacular performance. Two days later you get a call from your acting agent - you got the job.
Filming starts mid-next month, which is dissapointing because you had some other work scheduled then, but hey this is a movie. You wait until 3rd week of the next month and nothing has progressed....
... your actor agent follows up and they are having a slight delay. Shooting will start in two weeks.
Two weeks later still no call, you follow up, the main character is sick/on another job/quit. They are waiting for him to be free or casting a new lead actor.
You wait, and wait... nothing ever happens. Years later you hear through the grape vine that the movie was canned due to internal conflicts, no funding or it gets shot by a different director who recast the entire crew.
Don't be too surprised.
If you are working and a Union member in a major western nation, this is not so likely to happen as to an actor working non-union or in a non-westernised country.
In Asia for example it is common to schedule 3 things on a week, just always say yes becasue they will never shoot on the days that they say they will.
Unfortunately doing the "right thing" can lead to you shooting yourself in the foot, and there is no recourse if the shoot is re-scheduled or cancelled (ie they found some idiot who would work cheaper). Take all the jobs you can and if by some supreme fluke two jobs actually manage to film on the same day then you are going to have to sort it out.
Look after your own best interested first and foremost, no one else is - most likely not even your acting agent.
UPDATE: The movie that inspired this post has finally come through, though now it is a Thai action movie. But that does not change the truth in this story as the other 5 movies have not happened yet.... waiting...
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