Pirates Plank

As a celebrity impersonator, I like to get inside the heads of the people I’m working, and walk around with them for a few weeks, before I consider committing them to my repertoire.  You have to be very precise, and understand not only how they walk, but why they happen to walk that way.   So when I was assigned to Lin Zhi Ling I decided to hunker down with this part.  I went to Singapore, because China would be too difficult for me to get around without being chased.

Here, the food is every bit as good, and there’s a lot more privacy.  It’s smaller, and people do see you, but the streets are more manageable, so that you can run down an alley while being chased by a mob, and not be coming face to face with a band of martial arts thugs, ready to take you out.  At that point, you’d have to climb up the chain link fence and do some flying backflippy kick things in the air, to surprise the attackers.  At least, that’s how it should work.  It’s how it is in the films.  I’m not exactly sure that Lin Chi Ling knows these tricks, but she should.

Just in case, however, I decided that I would also learn how to sing the Treasure Hunter theme song with a more sultry voice than the one I was born with.  It worked out well.  I had it down.  This was going to be some of my best work ever.  I like becoming someone else, and I sometimes miss acting classes.  The bit I learned on the Method has come in mighty handy, when it comes down to it.  And it gives me the opportunity to do roles like these, where the character I’m playing is much more of a free-thinking artist, and I’m all rational skin and bones.  And I know some interesting kicks too, and tomorrow, maybe just maybe I will garden.

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