#WIMMR Parades & good news!

Hey Guys & Gals,

We are on Day 7 of shooting Why I Murdered My Roommate. We are going into a night shoot tonight. And its cold!!! I'm kind of mad at my character Lush for being a dress and heels type of girl in the middle of winter. But then I think, hold on, its technically spring and its still cold as sh@!.  This east coast weather madness reminds me why I live in Cali.

But a huge perk of shooting in a place like Buffalo is how welcoming it is. You don't get too many film productions here so securing locations and background people on a low budget is alot easier than a place like LA. The production value of this project is looking amazing but if we were in NYC or LA there is No Way we could have managed with the same budget. The location costs alone would be astronomical.

Another cool aspect is the quirkiness of the envirmoment. There's old silos, and quintensential 2 story homes and a holiday i have never heard of before called Dyngus Day. Its a polish celebration of fertility the day after Easter.  Girls run around hitting boys with pussy willows and boys squirt girls with squirt guns...I mean this is the cool stuff you can't just make up. We got the jump on the back of a flat bed truck yesterday to be part of the Dyngus Day Parade in Character.  It was pretty wild. I have never experienced anything like that as an actor before. Especially when i was squirted in the face with a gun filled with beer from the crowd!  You kinda have to just go with it. Haha  Here's a selfie as Lush with the Buffalo crowd!

Check out my instagram photos @ nicole_dionne and our productions Why I Murdered My Roommate facebook page aka #WIMMR
to stay in the loop of all the antics we have been up too.  LUKIA AND MIKE Costello on the social media squad have been amazing!!

Another cool bit of news!  Bobby & June : Impulse got into the 15 Minutes Of Fame Film Festival in Florida. It will officially screen on April 25th or 26th.  Its a fun short i shot with Cary Mosier, directed by Mike Darling and written by rhe witty mind of Annie Wood.  You should definitely check out what these kids are up to. We are official when we get Laurels!  wooohoooo!

Find Cary Mosier at Cafe Gratitude LA and Gracious Madre LA
Find Mike Darling at Evalation Media Productions
Find Annie Wood at Anniewood.com

It was a long night shooting that ended in the rain. We got a big day tomorrow!! Signing off!
Xo
nicole

Shuffled off to Buffalo!

Hey Guys & Girls,

Just flew into Buffalo NY today and over to Tilke Hill's house meeting some of the cast and crew for "WHY I MURDERED MY ROOMMATE".  I'm about to enter LUSH's World, with these cooky characters!

Spent some time in Austin TX this past week which has been great for a little Adventure and somewhat R&R until last night, which turned into a late one. With an early early morning wake up for my flight.  So I'm a little cranky today, trying to put on a happy face, because it's my own fault, well I had help but that is a whole other blog or journal entry.  Needless to say I'm feeling very vulnerable and funky today, which is a terrible day for it.  But everyone here is super awesome already!

I'm learning I'm not good at acting in real life anymore.  I tend to wear my heart, emotions, and opinions on my sleeve.  Which can be great since being naturally expressive in real life helps me in my acting life.  And people who know me hopefully know and trust that I say what I mean and they don't have to wonder or try to figure me out. What you see is what you get, and if you ask I will tell you. I am honest that way. And I try to bring that to my acting. Even if I don't fully relate to a character my job is to just be as honest as possible.  Share a real emotional experience.

With that said, I've always been one to leave my shit at the door if I need to work, but I am not a person to pretend everything is okay if its not.  Maybe because I don't care what people think of me anymore.  Which is liberating.  Maybe because I am owning who I am and how I feel more.  Because that is self love!  Maybe because I want people to take me or leave me as I am.  Because in the past, I have only given one impression of who I am, which happened to be the free spirited bubbly girl and then shocked people when another side of me came out. My other side can be serious, deep or if provoked a bitch!  We all have many sides to ourselves. We all have good days and bad days. We all experience emotional highs and lows, good moods, bad moods, hope, fear, excitement, lack or fulfillment.  The gift is having people around you or specifically one special someone close to you who always reminds you of your greatness and helps you get back to that place if you happen to forget. If you are lucky enough to have that, hang on to it and appreciate it with all your heart.

Now back to LUSH. She is the opposite of everything I just described in myself. She wants to badly to be liked and included and part of the cool crowd. Her Idol is Kim Kardashian. She just wants to be seen.  She wants to be loved (which we all do) but she tries to be what she isn't, to receive that.  It's interesting exploring a character like that.  And she also has the emotional responses of a 5 year old to life happening around her.  And you can't really tell if it's an act because its a tactic to get her way or not.  More on all this later!

I'm so sleepy.....good night everyone.  Happy Hump Day. Hope it's been less bumpy than mine!
xo-
Nicole