Is the audition process in Hollywood soul-destroying?
I remember going over there for an audition in the first few years and, I kid you not, the guy kept me in a hallway outside his office next to the photocopier room and no one talked to me and when I went in to read for the part he was answering emails. He never once looked at me and when I had finished he didn’t look up. I said thanks and off I went. That cold. When you’re that cold in LA there is no feeling quite like it. You die a little inside every time and wake up and try to shake it off and go to the next one, but it doesn’t always work. Grant Bowler is having the time of his life with a new role in hit US drama True Blood How has the experience changed you? It’s changed me as a man for the good. I think I always needed to go through that in one form or another, whether I wound up being at home or staying over there. I wish I was a quicker learner and wish I could have gone through what I needed to learn faster and that it cost less. But no matter how much it cost or how long it’
