a quick intro

I’m seeing a screening of the new movie People Like Us with Robyn.  I’m on the screening committee of BAFTA and I was responsible for coordinating with the studio to get this screening.  So now I am the one who introduces it--- it takes less than five minutes.

And yet, every time I do this, I get nervous.  I write out my script, right down to “Hello, my name is…..”   Tonight I do the introduction with a woman I work with from the Producer’s Guild.  As I introduce her, I do a floppy hand gesture and say, “And now here’s Mitzi.”  I feel like Vanna introducing a vowel.

I grew up wanting to be an actress.  I guess I’ll have to settle for being in front of the big screen instead of on it.