Jennymarie Jemison

Movie Boneboys

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740476/

The bruise is still healing on my arm from my Bone Boys audition. Nineteen pages of sides ranging from my brother dying before my eyes to me taking a cannibal hostage, all performed at an inexplicable breakneck speed. It was like being on a rabid bucking bronco and just trying to stay on for 8 seconds. At the end, I got to improv a scene where I was tied up with my arms behind the chair I was sitting in. As this is a horror film, with lots of scary things happening, I ended up backing that chair up to the wall and kicking and screaming at my tormentor, aka the reader. My arms got kind of mangled in the process but I didn’t notice that they were actually turning a nice plum color until afterward. The reader, an older man named Sonny, walked me out. He said, “You tell yourself you did a hell of a job in there on your way home. You’re a damn fine actress.” I looked into his kind eyes and said “You are a sweet man.” And I knew right then and there as I walked to my station wagon, that I wasn’t getting a callback.