A Blessing in Disguise

Alex Law's Echoes of the Rainbow is showing at HKIFF and will be released to local theatres soon.

I auditioned for a small part in this film, but I didn't get it. I have mixed feelings about missing out on the role.

Part of me is quite sad, becauseit would have been great to be involved with a movie I could show my mother.

I edited the subtitles onShamo, but I wouldn't really ask her to watch it. I edited the subtitles onSasoritoo, but I wouldn't even think of letting my mother watch it.

It would have been nice to be in a film that won an award at the Berlin Film Festival. That just soundsgood.

Why they named it the Crystal Bear is a mystery. Why I would never call it by that name isnot . Getting the Crystal Bear in Berlin sounds like a euphemism. A veryuncomfortable euphemism.

So why on earth would I be glad I didn't get the part?

Well, it's based on a realistic concession.

When I auditioned, there was of course no mention of who the other actors would be.

If I had actually gottenthe part, and shown up the first day of shooting my role to find myself between Simon Yam Tat Wah and Sandra Ng Kwan Yu..."Look at the size of that f@#$ing gweilo..."I'd have frozen up like a deer in the headlights.

Then I'd have sh*t myself.

So I'm sort of glad that I didn't get it.

But it does motivate me to work a lot harder on my next audition.I wonder what moviesJo Koomight be in next year...