I am not an actor, yet.

It was a beautiful day in Hollywood as I lunched with director Mitch Glazer at the Terrace Restaurant in the Sunset Towers where they host the Vanity Fair after party to the Oscars. I won't lie when I say I was a little nervous and overly excited to meet him. We had exchanged a few humorous messages before we met up and I had obviously done some IMDB searching prior too.

I have my mother to thank for the wonderful lunch for they met...a number of years ago (I won't go aging anyone who doesn't look as old as they do). He was absolutely charming and considering that he is in post production of his own written and directed movie Passion Play (click the link to check out the odd combination of cast members - really interesting), he is clearly busy and doesn't need to be taking some twenty year old out for lunch who is desperately trying to get into the business. But in the end that's really how kind of a person he is. He was sincere in all of his questions and making sure that whatever I do I should run by him first.

I learned a lot about the movie and much about his daughter who is just a bit older then me and is interested in the acting as well. Apparently she recently did a clip on 90210 as the drummer in a rock band.

Speaking of bands, I told him about going to see my friend's boyfriend's band Burn Down the Mission (they are incredible, I suggest checking them out) and explained that how most people I was introduced to in the crowd claimed to be an actor. I was thinking to myself that it is impossible that all of these people are actually actors and I started asking them what they had done (pretty much prying into what was shown on their resume) to discover that they were pretty much self proclaimed.

When asked about what I do or why I am down here I am almost embarrassed to say 'acting' because everyone down here is looking to do the same thing, it is overly cliche and at the end of the day, I am your typical 20 year old blonde that people tend to shovel in and out of auditions like a pooper-scooper. Great.

The only thing on my acting resume thus far is playing the role of a singing/dancing NUN - which I think I did quite well, I might add - but this is not credible enough to hand to any talent agent. I mean, these people aren't actors yet! They might as well say, I would like to be an actor...but right now I am parking people's hundred thousand dollar cars at valet - or at least say you are in school! Why not be honest?  I find it sounds a little snobbish to go around parading your 'title' as an actor as if you just graduated with a PHD in psych at the top of your class at some astound school. I also think people aren't going to want to help you if you just blurt it out. It's like saying you are a millionaire when all you can afford is cheap sushi but you go because its the cool thing to do.

Well that was quite the rant, but I guess what I am saying is that I am not an actor. I can act and would like to be taken seriously as an actor, but for now I am still just Liv from Toronto  -whose love for raw fish is on the higher end of the expenses scale.