In The Movies
One industry in this state that is growing is movie making. New Mexico has incredible light, wide open spaces, western scenery, and an active state film office. I check the casting calls on their website, but haven't yet found a call for an elderly cowgirl wannabe. I have my own hat. I keep looking.
I also check the newspaper for actor sightings -- the gossip column breathlessly reports on which film star was seen at what restaurant downtown. That's fun.
As it turns out we live right next door to a movie actress.
Susan moved in after we did. In fact, she saw the house next to us on the day our moving van was here in August, blocking the front of the house she wanted to tour (our house and the one right next to it were both for sale at the same time). She did buy it, and moved in at Halloween.
We got to know her right away and she is a delightful neighbor. Recently I saw her as she was coming home, and barely recognized her. She was gorgeously dressed and heavily made up, with an elaborate hairstyle.
Oh, she said -- I'm just back from filming. Of course.
Susan is a film actress -- formerly a touring ballet dancer all over the U.S. and later in life a ballet dance instructor and choreographer, but now, newly arrived in Santa Fe, she is making the career change to movie actress.
She was a dancer in the 2014 camp movie A Million Ways to Die in the West, but strives for more, as all actors do.
She teaches ballet in Santa Fe, performs in independent films at the Santa Fe Community College down the street from our neighborhood, and does casting work in Albuquerque.
Her stories about crushing ambitions in NYC and then living in a yurt in the mountains in southern Colorado were an entertaining addition to tales of touring Egypt in a classical ballet company.
We are happy to have her next door. Jim likes her dog, and I can't wait to see her in the next made-in-New Mexico blockbuster cowboy ballet movie very soon.
I also check the newspaper for actor sightings -- the gossip column breathlessly reports on which film star was seen at what restaurant downtown. That's fun.
As it turns out we live right next door to a movie actress.
Susan moved in after we did. In fact, she saw the house next to us on the day our moving van was here in August, blocking the front of the house she wanted to tour (our house and the one right next to it were both for sale at the same time). She did buy it, and moved in at Halloween.
We got to know her right away and she is a delightful neighbor. Recently I saw her as she was coming home, and barely recognized her. She was gorgeously dressed and heavily made up, with an elaborate hairstyle.
Oh, she said -- I'm just back from filming. Of course.
Susan is a film actress -- formerly a touring ballet dancer all over the U.S. and later in life a ballet dance instructor and choreographer, but now, newly arrived in Santa Fe, she is making the career change to movie actress.
 |
| Susan Baker-Dillingham |
She was a dancer in the 2014 camp movie A Million Ways to Die in the West, but strives for more, as all actors do.
She teaches ballet in Santa Fe, performs in independent films at the Santa Fe Community College down the street from our neighborhood, and does casting work in Albuquerque.
Her stories about crushing ambitions in NYC and then living in a yurt in the mountains in southern Colorado were an entertaining addition to tales of touring Egypt in a classical ballet company.
We are happy to have her next door. Jim likes her dog, and I can't wait to see her in the next made-in-New Mexico blockbuster cowboy ballet movie very soon.
Comments