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Film Courage: Do you work seven days a week?
Actor/Writer/Filmmaker Blayne Weaver: I usually do. When you think about it though, I’ve worked. This is not work. I love to create. I love to write. Sometimes it’s a bear to sit down and do the thing but today before I met you guys, I had lunch and I sat there and had my computer open and I did some polish on five pages. I love that. I love being able to knock off work whenever I can. Yes, I do that kind of thing 7 days a week. I feel like I would work more if the business was open on Saturday and Sundays because I’m constantly looking for emails to be responded to.
I looked at a video that we did before from Six Month Rule and it’s still true that was what 10 years ago or something like that? The most distressing thing in the world to me is just waiting for the emails to come back. You can’t do X until you have these three conversations and then you just sit and you wait. Crazy for me, so I’ve always disliked weekends because I can’t get anything done. I can’t get anybody on the phone. Back in the day it meant that I was working. I would try to get all my writing done in the daytime because I was going to a restaurant to work at night because Friday, Saturday, Sundays for years I missed out on holidays. Weekends, if everybody was going out then, I was working and if everybody was working then, I was like Tuesday night looking for somebody to go see a movie with or something like that. It was very important to me in building my career because I know a lot of people who wanted a more structured life and so they got like a 9 -to-5 but it was loosey-goosey and it was easy for them to call out and blah blah blah but it never works out, it never works out because the truth is no boss wants to be called at 600 p.m. and being told that you’re not going to be in until 4:00 the next day. Then you only do it for the jobs that sound really exciting but then if you don’t do the little jobs, you don’t get the offers for the big jobs or the auditions for the big jobs. It’s like the snake eating its own tail where suddenly you’ve been working 9- to-5 for 2 years and you’re like What happened to my acting career, my auditions? The truth is…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Actor/Writer/Filmmaker Blayne Weaver most recently directed the romantic comedy MISS VALENTINE and wrote the partier comedy PRETTY STONED for MTV. Other recent works include directing the holiday romance CUPID FOR CHRISTMAS for Hulu, writing & directing the horror GetAWAY and co-writing the raucous comedy AMERICAN PIE: GIRLS’ RULES for Netflix. He previously wrote, directed and starred in the Southern Noir Thriller CUT TO THE CHASE and the acclaimed romantic comedy 6 MONTH RULE (alongside Martin Starr, Natalie Morales and John Michael Higgins). Previous films he’s written and directed include WEATHER GIRL (with Tricia O’Kelley, Mark Harmon, Jon Cryer and Jane Lynch) and OUTSIDE SALES. He also co-wrote and acted in MANIC (Don Cheadle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel), directed by Jordan Melamed, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He starred in writer/director Paul Osborne’s psychological thriller FAVOR and has appeared in such films as JUNK, DEEP DARK CANYON, OFFICIAL REJECTION and THE GOOD OLD BOYS opposite Tommy Lee Jones. His numerous episodic television credits include ER, NCIS, and THE MIDDLEMAN. He also provided the voice of Peter Pan in the Disney animated feature RETURN TO NEVER LAND. A native of Bossier City, Louisiana, Blayne has studied acting in New York, Los Angeles, Oxford University and graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature. He currently runs the West Coast office of Secret Identity Pictures.
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