Long earlier than Melissa graced your TV display, she was on the market hustling from audition to audition — and, as everyone knows, showbiz is not a really variety place to work normally.
During a latest look on The View, Melissa revealed that she as soon as misplaced a gig appearing in a industrial as a result of the director shamed her for her — look ahead to it — fingers. Yes, actually.
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“When I was first auditioning and going out for commercials, my hands really stood in the way,” Melissa stated, claiming that she has “Hobbit hands” and holding her fingers out to the cameras.
“I was in the running for a [TGI] Friday’s commercial, to play a waitress, and I was down to the wire on it. They asked for my availability for the next week. I was in the callback, and they said, ‘Okay, great, so glad you’re available next week. One more thing, can we just see your hands, to the camera? Show them back and front.'”
Once Melissa unveiled her fingers, nonetheless, the industrial’s director reacted in a manner that was…fairly impolite, if we’re being actual.
“I did that, and I heard the director from behind the camera go, ‘Jesus Christ!'” she recalled. “I didn’t get the job.”
Damn, that is tough — however it’s additionally a reminder that, it doesn’t matter what individuals say to you that will get you down, you may all the time simply do your personal factor and succeed anyway. Who wants all of the negativity!
Watch all the interview right here.