"And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them"
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The syntax does a lot of the social work. It’s a run-on built from “and then” and “and I’m,” the verbal equivalent of flipping through open tabs: audition, script, horror film, TV meetings, offer. That accumulation mimics the hustle economy of entertainment, where the appearance of demand can be as valuable as demand itself. Even “pretty much was offered one of them” hedges, a small but telling wobble between confidence and caution. Offers in Hollywood are often soft until they’re signed; the phrasing preserves bragging rights without inviting fact-checking.
The subtext is a performance of legitimacy. Reality-TV fame (Cannatella’s cultural entry point) has long been treated as adjacent to “real” acting, so the name-dropping of formats - movie, horror film, television shows - reads like boundary-crossing, a bid to be taken seriously. It’s less a report than an audition for the audience: see me as working, wanted, next.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cannatella, Trishelle. (2026, January 16). And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-im-auditioning-right-now-for-a-movie-and-then-113925/
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Cannatella, Trishelle. "And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-im-auditioning-right-now-for-a-movie-and-then-113925/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-im-auditioning-right-now-for-a-movie-and-then-113925/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




