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The
Wedding Dress
F.A.Q.
or War
Stories
How did
you come up with the idea for “The Wedding Dress”?
As
they say, write what you know… The
truth is I had a wedding dress hidden in my closet for two years.
For 730 days, I imagined (and feared) what would happen if my boyfriend
found it. Once we moved in
together, well, it became too much, and I finally showed him the dress.
He thought it was funny and we did get married – in another dress
however.
What was
your biggest challenge?
Of
course money was an issue for me, but the greatest challenge was finding my lead
actor. After several casting
sessions, I still had not found an actor who could bring to “Warren” the
right amount of charm to make him a lovable loser.
I needed the audience to believe that “Toni” would stay with this guy
for 1½ years. Once we pushed my
start date for the third time, desperation set in.
On the verge of a breakdown and in the midst of a psychotic episode
caused by a two-month-almost-100-auditions search for the lead, I told my
producer that I was going to approach people in the street.
She thought I was kidding. Two
days and 50 bewildered strangers later, I found Anil Raman shopping for sweaters
at the mall.
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