I have been in show business for awhile now.

How long you may ask? Well, I'll let you guys figure it out. Being in show business is a funny thing. When I was very young and used to watch TV programs or go to theaters and watch movies, I've always said to myself that I can do the same as those people in the shows. Now that I am in the biz, I can tell you all now that it’s really not all that.

I just came off the set of this movie where I play a prisoner. Remember? Well, through all these years, one thing I learned about making movies, and someone once said it best, is that it is the most UNNATURAL profession. What does that mean? Well, what it means is that movie is shot on film, so that what a viewer actually sees on screen may be something completely different than what it is like while being shot.

This last film I did was about 3 prisoners being transported from one prison to another prison because the first prison is about to be flooded by heavy rain. Well, since we don't have raging water and heavy rain on demand, all we can do is to depend on modern technology called 'SPECIAL EFFECTS' to add on to the movie after it is all done. But how do you act like there is a mad flood when there really isn't one?!?

Imagine, and imagine hard! All we can do is shoot close up of us in real water for a bit, and through editing and effects combining the two to give viewers the impression that we are really pressured by a real flood. Needless to say it is really silly as an actor to act like something is there when there actually isn't. That is what I call unnatural! There was also a scene where we are all rescued by a helicopter at the end of the movie and all of us hanging on to the rope ladder for dear life. Of course due to budget reasons there is no helicopter so all we can do is to suspend a rope ladder and all of us pretend to be hanging to this ladder dropped by the helicopter.

I'm sure lots of you all understand that movies are not always what you see on screen, but just try to imagine doing things and pretending things are there when they actually are not... better yet, try it sometimes, and you can truly appreciate what an actor has to go through to bring entertainment to the public...one word of advice, if you are really going to try to act things out and pretend that you are in a totally different artificially create situation, do it in the comforts of your own home, or someone just might bust you and put you into the funny farm!