If you are interested in being a background
performer in this film, please email your photo, availability &
phone numbers to
ottawacasting@rogers.com
FILM: The Perfect Assistant
SHOOT: Thursday, July 5 to Thursday, July 26 (Tuesdays &
Wednesdays are OFF)
DIRECTOR: DOUG JACKSON
PRODUCTION: Lance Entertainment & Sound Venture Productions
Payscale: $10.00 (non-union) / ACTRA Scale (ACTRA members)
Synopsis
For the past three years, RACHEL PARSONS, mid 30s, has been the
perfect assistant. She works long hours, takes care of
everything her boss, PAUL WESTCOTT, mid 40s, needs, and never
makes a mistake. Why? Because she’s secretly in love with him.
Having lost her own parents to a car accident as a young child,
Rachel has always dreamed of finding the perfect man and raising
the perfect family. Her idealized fantasy has come to life as
Paul Westcott, the President of a mid-level P.R. firm in
Philadelphia. Unfortunately, Paul already has a family—a
beautiful wife named CARMEN, 30s, and an adorable daughter,
ISABELLE, 6. And since Paul will never give up his wife, there’s
little that Rachel can do besides pine for him secretly.
But Rachel receives a stroke of luck when Carmen is rushed to
the hospital, diagnosed with bacterial meningitis—an
incapacitating disease, and ultimately slips into a coma. Rachel
uses the opportunity to wedge her way further into Paul’s
life—offering to babysit for Isabelle, make him dinner, handle
things at the office. In short, three years’ worth of fantasy
begins to materialize. It’s no surprise that when Carmen’s
condition improves, Rachel is reluctant to give up her new place
in Paul’s life. Rachel decides to seize the chance to murder
Carmen while she’s still unconscious and rid her of Paul’s life
forever.
And that’s not all. When Paul’s business take a downturn, and it
appears that a big account may fall to a rival company, Rachel
takes it upon herself to dig up dirt on the other company’s
owner, GRADY, and blackmail him into withdrawing his bid. Even
though no one knows Rachel had a hand in landing the account,
it’s enough for Rachel to know she saved the day for Paul. Once
the account is confirmed, Paul and his Vice-President, the
attractive JUDITH, 30s, are invited to New York to meet with the
big-whigs at their client’s headquarters. When Paul decides to
take Isabelle with him, thinking a weekend away would help her
take a break from thinking about her mother’s death, Rachel
decides to go even though she wasn’t invited. The day before the
trip, Judith comes down with an awful stomach ache and
Isabelle’s new nanny realizes she “accidentally” mixed up an
important appointment with immigration regarding her mother’s
visa. Lucky for Paul, Rachel offers to go last minute to take
care of his daughter.
In New York, Rachel makes her move, kissing Paul during a moment
she misconstrues as romantic, and he is forced to tell her that
he has no interest in her. Rejected, Rachel decides she must
work harder to win Paul’s affections, but back at the office,
things begin to unravel very quickly. Word that Rachel was
researching Grady right before the blackmail and was seen
tampering with Judith’s food before she became ill has worked
its way back to Paul. Paul realizes that Rachel’s obsession with
him may have led her to this behavior and decides the best thing
for all involved is to let her go.
Rachel doesn’t take the news of being stricken from Paul’s life
very well. She’s hurt, betrayed, and slowly beginning to lose
her grip on reality. When her live-in cousin prods too much
about Paul, Rachel blows up and murders her in a fit of rage.
All sense of reason completely gone, Rachel decides that if she
can’t have Paul, no one can. And if he couldn’t see how much she
deserved to be loved by him, he doesn’t deserve to live anyway.
Armed with a gun, Rachel decides to attend a company
dinner—uninvited of course—will she will make her final stand
and everyone who stood in the way of her perfect fantasy family…
will pay the ultimate price.
Extras Needed:
Day 1 - Thursday, July 5
17 x Funeral Goers (age 35-60)
3 x Passersby (age 35-60)
1 x Guy Dressed as a Farmer (5'10", 32/34 waist)
20 x Fun Farm Children Patrons (ages 7-12)
15 x Fun Farm Patrons Parents
5 x Fun Farm Employees
Day 2 - Friday, July 6
1 x Mother w/ Stroller
1 x Rollerblader
13 x Passersby
Day 3 - Saturday, July 7
8 x Westcott Employees (CONTINIUITY) Age 25-45
6 x Office Types
Day 4 - Sunday, July 8
8 x Westcott Employees (CONTINUITY) Age 25-45
Day 5 - Monday, July 9
4 x Cocktail Waitstaff
8 x Cocktail Partiers (4 are CONTINUITY Wesctott Employees)
1 x Valet
5 x Upscale Passbys
Day 6 - Thursday, July 12
14 x Yuppie Bar Patrons (Professionals)
1 x 65 yr. old male
Day 8 - Saturday, July 14
8 x Wescott Employees (Continuity)
Day 9 - Sunday, July 15
8 x Westcott Employees (Continuity)
Day 10 - Monday, July 16
20 x Students (Ages 6-9 - should look young, age 6)
5 x Teachers
1 x Housekeeper (Age 30-60) CONTINUITY
** performer needs to be flexible w/ dates for this, as they are
subject to change
Day 12 - Friday, July 20
1 x Housekeeper (Age 30-60) CONTINUITY
** performer needs to be flexible w/ dates for this, as they are
subject to change
Day 13 - Saturday, July 21
10 x Female Mental Patients (age 25-70)
15 x Doctors, Nurses, Hospital Waiting Room People, Patients
If you are interested in being a background performer in this
film, please email your photo, availability & phone numbers to
ottawacasting@rogers.com
Best wishes,
Claudia Jurt
Ottawa Casting
ottawacasting@rogers.com
www.ACTottawa.com
