SHOW BIZ BABY

Just the other day Bill and I were talking about people who's baby was chosen as a model for a baby clothing store. We talked about show business and babies. I used to work as a casting assistant and I witnessed a fair amount of disfunction between parents and kids at auditions (Think Danny Bonaduce's reality show...ugh) One thing we have on our side is realizing the reality of the business and not getting all googly about our baby being a "star".

Well, yesterday out of the blue we receive a phone call from a talent agent inquiring about Olivia. Turns out a performer friend of ours recommended Olivia to her as they were looking for a baby for a feature film "Cats & Dogs 2". I had to send her "stats"...hahah:

Name: Olivia Love Costin
Parent: Jennifer Bishop & Bill Costin
Age: 9 weeks
Weight: 9lbs
Length: 54.5cm
Hair: brown
Eyes: blue

And I sent these details along with her frog picture...hahahah!

The long and short of it, Olivia is booked for her first film gig.

Here are the details:

- She is booked along with 2 other babies (coincidentally one of the baby's names is Maia Love! They use whatever baby is sleeping at the time for the scene. If a baby is fussing they just let them settle and get what they need and work with one of the other babies.

- They can only use a baby for 15 minutes at a time. (with I think, 20 minutes in between)

- They have to pay us $27/hr for a minimum of 8 hours no matter how long we spend there. (will likely be a short day...one little scene)

- They can only book babies during the day time.

- The category is SAE - Special Ability Extra (used to be Special Skills Extra in the day I did film work!) I guess her special ability is being a cute baby?

- It's close to our house!

So, she and I will spend Tuesday hanging out on a film set, eating great food (there is always ridiculous amounts of great food on set) and doing what we do with little 15 minutes of fame scattered in.

How crazy. My child is only 9 weeks old and is on her way to having more success in film than her mother.

Jennifer