Actors have to decide for themselves how far they are willing to go for a part. When Dyonna Harrison heard that her audition for "Happy Fliers School of Aeronautical Knowledge" was the day after Thanksgiving at Whiteman Airport in L.A., she knew she was going to have to go far. "I had spent Thanksgiving in Las Vegas," she says. "But I figured it was an audition, I wasn't going to blow it off, so I took that drive—the six-hour drive back from Vegas—straight to Whiteman Airport." Harrison first saw the notice for the short in the Nov. 11 issue of Back Stage, but she didn't realize until after she had submitted and been asked to audition that it was a spoof of "Top Gun." "I hadn't seen 'Top Gun,' which is weird," she admits. "Everybody in the world has seen 'Top Gun,' but I hadn't seen it,...
- 1/17/2011
- backstage.com
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