Crystal Camp Fire (part 5)

Let's share stories about a time you were chosen for something- a job, a play, a date, anything you would like to share...

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I was happy to be choosen for several things in my life (contestant
on a big TV show, teacher in San Francisco among them ) but thinking
about that topic reminds be about a story when I was 4 or 5 years old.
It was in 1971 or 72.

We were living in Avignon, a city in the South of France, famous in
Europe for having the biggest drama festival of the year (In 2004,
there are more than 400 plays in one month).
The biggest event takes place in the center or the Château des Papes
(cause before being in Vatican, the Pope were staying there)

That year, a director and his assistants were looking for a young kid
to play Jesus as a child on the main stage of the festival.
They probably came down with a list of hundreds names. i don't really
remember going through a casting, just some guys taking pictures of
my face (I had long brown hair and I guess it was a mute part) But I
remember my parents telling me that I was choosen to play the part
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH

So My parents and I met the director, I just remember being in the
middle of a circle with 10 people staring at me

The director explained to me that people would be happy to meet Jesus
and would dance around me, carry me on their shoulders, kissing me,
and uh, yes, also that i would have to be naked !

I think I looked at my parents and said something like : "I don't
want to be naked in front of people."

The director told : "Don't worry, there will plenty of naked actors
around you.Almost everyone will be naked"

And i had this childish (cute) answer : " But it's different, they
are all adults"

Of course I wasn't choosen any more to be the choosen one :-)...

And thinking of it, I think nowadays I wouldn't have a problem to be
naked on stage (it's just that nobody ever asked me in my drama
experiences, lol) but I would hate to see a naked child. So i guess
this little me was right at the time.

thanks for reading

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