The Bad Hair Day That Cost Me Playing Mark Wahlberg's Wife
Plus: Jane wants to pay you for being yourself
Hello kooks,
Before you get to today's featured story (or before you skip past what I'm writing now to go straight to the story, which is what I generally do when I see the dreaded italics or anything suggesting an "editor's note"), I want to encourage you to send in your submissions for two recurring columns: "It Happened To Me" and "Unpopular Opinion", both of which are pretty self-explanatory from their titles, I think. Send them all to me at jane@anotherjaneprattthing.com.
To drive the point home about how much I want to hear from you, here's a little love story about today's author and me. The day I first announced I was looking for submissions for our It Happened To Me column, this very odd little tale about biting the head off of a weed gummy appeared in my inbox. Now I love nothing more than finding new writers. It has been documented that I jumped up and down in the pink Times Square Sassy offices when I first read Christina Kelly's writing in a cover letter she sent me. And then there I was years later screaming in a too-high pitch in the too-yellow editors’ room at XOJane when I opened Cat Marnell's first beauty column submission. Just today I got a story by a writer (hi, Sarah Swinwood) that included one two-word sentence that was so good it made me gasp and sincerely bolt up off of my couch.
The thrill of finding any kind of artist who is in any way unsung, and then helping get them the audience they deserve, has been a thrill for me my whole career, but discovering a writer and helping publish and get their work out into the world is my favorite flavor of that. So here we are with Genevieve's third submission to AJPT, and counting. I can't wait to read your stories too, if you have them. And if you want to say, “Shut up Jane, I'm just here to read," then do that too and enjoy! I love you all so much!
-Jane
PS I'm still planning our Sassy surprise and I will give you all those details SOON.
By Genevieve Sage*
*Please follow me on Instagram. I have a meager amount of followers and I want to feel popular. I also have a dream goal to meet Diablo Cody, if anyone can hook that up, too.
You know that Talking Heads song Once in a Lifetime? When David Byrne sings,
"And you may ask yourself, 'Well, how did I get here?'"
—that’s exactly how I felt walking onto the Disney lot to audition for the role of Mark Wahlberg’s wife in the 2006 feature film, Invincible.
The photos above are two of my first headshots. For I, too, was a “serious actor.”