Today Thursday on CLIMBING THE HOLLYWOOD LADDER.

OUR BUSINESS . is one that is driven by relationships. undiscovered talent is a proverb. just because your talented does not mean you will succeed it is a BUSINESS.
 Driven by circles of creative people. if one can manage to get a break out role." a role that the industry sees and Breaks you out of the Pack of thousands of actors that are trying to get noticed and you move out of the pack and up The Ladder"

When Someone takes the time and the Risk to Recommend you to .anyone in our business. For me its the most high compliment and trust placed in you.

You have to understand we are only as good as the person we recommended. go ahead and recommend someone and if they cannot deliver, are an ass hole ,flake or do not understand the biz,unprofessional. It is very hard for you to ever recommend someone to that person again. that's just how it is. Your Judgment in people and or talent is suspect.

I have been screwed by more than a couple of people by referring them in the past and well it makes you very hesitant to do so. most don't understand this business. and well there expectations are just to high. If someone up the ladder is willing to take a look at you and your work. believe me. they will remember a talented person they see. they may not be able to use you on the current project,or maby not in the years to follow but sooner or later they will go Hay i know a guy that may be rite for this role. that's all we can ask for and or expect. or maby they may suggest you to someone else.
 its a very small business Hollywood is. everyone knows everyone and hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world come here to try to get in.

 Morgan Freeman did not break out and become successful until his 50's after a lifetime of acting???
 Be a good Person, a professional, not an ass kisser. continue to develop your craft. get over yourself and realize your odds are very small. and when ever you can help others down the ladder if you are able. Do so and things will happen for you.

 I have had the good fortune to be recommended by a few people and moved up the ladder and gotten booked on jobs site unseen. that is huge. and soooo appreciated and an incredible opportunity to make your friend look good. the one that recommended you . That's how i booked the Sarah Silverman show. The Role of Andra  in the scene with Andy Samberg and Sarah. had worked with Tim And Eric on there show "Awesome adventure great Job". a couple of times. i did 3 shows with them for Free. and when a fellow director ROB who directs Sarah's show was talking to Eric he described a character he was looking for and Eric recommended me. Rob hired me for the role having never met me and did not even audition me for the role. That is Powerful and  a huge endorsement from one Director to another.

An old Army buddy Sean  offered to refer me to a family member in the biz that a Producer.
New actors  need to understand. that these are the opportunities that we work so hard  and sacrifice for.. now you can not expect anything to come of it. however when someone recommends you to another professional you better mind you P's and Q's  Word gets around fast in our biz and if you dont have a Reputation. your gonna get one soon. stick around.   so to my Friend that is willing to stick his neck out a little.

Thank you  ill not expect anything to come of it. and will do my best to Respect and honor your relationship  with the person you refer me to.

YESTERDAY AT THE AUDITION FOR THE LOW LEVEL MOB GUY COMMERCIAL.
the camera guy started talking to me after the audition about my rep. he was giving me the biggest compliment you can give to me an Actor. he said Frankie you book so many things and Dood you always commit so heavy to your reads. that's why we call you in. we know your gonna bring it.
You always make us look good.as we continued to talk about the biz and trends and what not

he asked me why i haven't broken out yet? why i think. we talked about the long hair thing and he said dood it gives you so many things you can do with it. for me it always is and always will be . a relationship driven Industry. and once you get inside a talented circle of people. and have something of worth to bring to there projects. then you have a family that will use you protect you and provide you with an opportunity. ya better not fuck it up. cuz ill be standing rite behind you. skilled, open and prepared to take advantage of the opportunity placed before me. and behind me thousands of others.ready for
  a hand up to the next rung
 Im Frankie Ray

Im a person. that has developed skills over 20 years.
An Actor, Musician Pro ballroom and latin dance Instructor, stunt man, rescue scuba diver. my list goes on and on and i continue  add more skills
 i don't want anyone to give me my success i will earn it.

All i ask is you take a look, Consider, and or let me in the room, a shot in the game. In the ARMY i qualified as an Expert marksman every year i was there. Go on Give me a shot i will hit the mark again and again and again.
my arms are steady and strong. i believe ive developed myself and given myself the best odds to Break out and continue my Climb. What do you Think.

      THE HOLLYWOOD LADDER. she is a TALLLLLL bitch but i love her just the same

Tomorrow's audition and my Fucken mullet on

 CLIMBING THE HOLLYWOOD LADDER 

Commercial Aud for

Israel satellite Provider as a low level Italian mob guy getting his ass kicked lol

 Here is a problem i run into allot

today The homeless guy has a beard and allot of face hair growth hes homeless and does not shave. 

so its a first audition ill most likely get a call back so i shouldn't shave. 

Tomorrow's First aud is for a guy that does not have face hair or thats the pic my commercial agent sent in. so i have to go in with a jawline beard and say yada yadda yadda about the beard. 

I turn 50 in about 10 days  DAAAAAM.

lol im cool with it its unexpected but what ever. 

i work allot as you know with stringy hair and face hair looking like shit. 

Now work is work and the money is great. who wants the world to see you looking your worst? would you.??? allot of money or not ?  and who wants to walk around looking like old shit between jobs ?

ive had my hair long for sooooo many years and well there is not much left on top its more of a mullet now. i would love to cut my hair and go for more distinctive roles middle age lawyer, maby psychologists,  crooked senitor, cop etc   roles more for tv and or film. i like to work but well i have many other skills and feel i can work just as much with short hair and ya know. its hard for me to play such ugly people Im actually well a sensitive person. not a huge ego but i think we all would like to look our best as we walk through this life. my agents don't me to cut my hair because i work allot with this look.  and i understand that ill just be another short haired middle age balding guy. and the hair makes me versatile. 

but DAM im really Tired of the Fucken Mullet. and or pony tail.

It's my life and I have to live it and should do what i want.but dont want to shoot myself in the foot. 

I think I cut myself off from doing other roles because of my hair but get roles because of my hair.

 I really dint want to play the OLD Homeless run down shitty looking guy the rest of my life. 

Change is the most constant thing in the universe. and well I think its getting time to reinvent myself . and move to a more mature look. Hollywood can always mess me up if needed. 

What do you think? would love some impute..

Today To follow up the commercial aud for the Homeless guy.
its always funny ya get an audition rite after you shave and ya need a beard. it went very well i think.i always like to go very early at the Top of the Sesson if i can. i like to be first to set the tone and tempo for other actors to match. it was a homeless guy panhandling. and no one giving him anything until a young college boy gives him his coat instead of money . it was a cold day. The Directions of the casting Dir. "The same casting Dir Alison Horn who i just love. she was the one i got the BOOST MOBILE "Bill from Hell Job with'  her direction  was  to not  make it comic or  scary but real. I chose my homeless guy to be emotionally destitute having reached the end of his resolve and rope. almost to the point of tears. at his lack of promise iin life and the state of his existence As the scene started. i remembered thinking " No one Loves me, No one cares, no one will help me" im alone in the world.. the emotions washed over me and well it was intense.

The hard part is not letting a tear fall. once the emotion is released it is very hard to get back there for a second take.  we did 3 takes. i dont think the casting director expected my choice of emotion. the room got very still and ya can feel the energy and focus drop to another level.

the other actor after just looked at me and said "Dam dood"
casting Dir and camera man said shit Frankie You almost made me cry also.

I dont know if that is the choice they wanted. it was a serious commercial for a college that is selling themselves as one that wants To instill morality/ compassion in there students as well as  Information.
so that was my choice.

 I felt it, they felt it , so i did my job.  . . those feelings are always hard to turn off. That was my day. Climbing the HOLLYWOOD LADDER

today In CLIMBING THE HOLLYWOOD LADDER.
Got a call from a guy i worked with on a short film with Asante  Jones last month. he wants me to play Joseph Smith in a comedy short he is doing why not...

Commercial audition today at 3:00 as a Homeless guy. lol  so off i go ill get a pic this time. but its just me looking like i need a shower and a job lol buts hay that's what we do.
Yesterday was memorial day. there is a Navy Destroyer named after my cousin Don McFaul  he was in panama in 88 died heroically saving another seal team 4 member quite an honor. so my thoughts were of him and his sacrifice thank you to all my fellow vets.
 if you havent seen my youtube of commercials and stuff here it is

Frankie Rays commercials and Film's

now im a gonna go get homeless. FR.

Today in Climbing The HOLLYWOOD LADDER. was a short notice Audition for a Film Called. KILJOY 4. an actor friend i did a couple of films with Al Burk is working on this film and did KILLJOY 3 said he loves the director and will do everything he does.
dident like my read. the role is for "HELLS SCRIBE. the guy that reads the charges of someone convicted of something in hell ?? anyway just got there on time and there was diologue and i could not see the words while in the audition. had to stop and appoligaize my sunglasses are prescription so the casting asst said go ahead and read with them on. so Today i was a Hells SCRIBE in Rayban's lol.  it always throws ya off when you cant see the diologue and havent had it a while to memorize it. i hate Auditions.  im one of thoes that needs to digest the diologue an situation for a while to own it. but they say our job is a PROFESSIONAL AUDITION-ER. IF we are good at our job we get to be an actor.
that was today. off the rest of the weekend  back at the climb tuesday.
Hope your weekend is good. Always your Hollywoodbadguy1 just a CLIMBING THAT OLD HOLLYWOOD LADDER.   NEEEEE XT.

MY NEW BEGINNING Half Way up the Ladder

Hello i started this blog because i have allot to say and well facebook was not the best place to speak my mind. as you may know im an Actor.Stuntman,Musician,singer,dancer. im in the entertainment biz.
I do allot of commercials. Mostly i have been playing really ugly people. ya see im a character actor.

More on that later. I just returned form a 10 day 2800 mile trip around the west coast  Arizona Nevada. to see my family. everyone is getting older and well ya know i want to see them before people start to drop.

I was getting caught up on my online stuff and on face book found out that a friend of 20 years ERIC J Swanson Died of a heart attack alone in his house in Big Bear Ca. Eric couldn't have been older than 49 or 50. of course im shocked. he was good to me at a time when i first started in acting. when i was homeless i parked my van by his house  and he let me shower there. it was in Venice ca. back in the 90's  he was a good Man he Was a Cinematographer. he shot the film i did Kiss the girls goodbye. a non union film but we spent allot of time together. he went up to no California one summer with me and my Father on the last gold dredging excursion  me and my father shared before he passed.  over the last 20 years we have stayed in contact we shared life together and he was a very kind man and Friend.

It has Scared me. to be honest. ya see i will turn 50 on June 7 2012.
and well i have been a Smoker my whole life.
it makes you stop and think?? its been on my mind allot. my mortality. how much time do i have left?
30 years? 20? 10? tomorrow?
Im an Actor I am blessed I work often. yet i can work harder and run my business better.
Like most everyone else I am afraid.
Afraid of being nothing.
Afraid of being something.
here you will get my raw truth. my feelings and thoughts. what i am doing day to day in my business and in my life. Some will not like what i say and or do. but i am going to be me. I am going to Re Dedicate myself to myself. and get my healthy thing going and do my best in my business, heart, relationships and my life. each night i will post what happened that day. some things i have to be vague about sometimes i have to sign NDA or non disclosure agreements while a project is in production but i will reveal it as soon as i am able.

Hello I am Frankie Ray. im an Actor in the Entertainment business.
And i am CLIMBING THE HOLLYWOOD LADDER. so far its been quite a ride. i hope you enjoy my journey. i am determined to kick it into high gear.  my time is running out and i have a way to go in my Climbe Up this Hollywood Ladder.

P.S. i know i need therapy but i refuse.
Fr