Hey there! Want to know How to Take Your Crazy Divergent Fangirling to the Next Level?
Sign Your Husband Up to be an Extra in the Next Movie
My love for Outlander is how I found That’s Normal. Like most of you, I read a book (or series of books), become obsessed, google everything I possibly can about the book, the tv/film adaptation, the actors who portray my favorite characters, and generally spend way too much time trying to figure out how I can become bffs with everyone involved in said book/tv series/film.
As I was perusing every single post that had anything to do with Outlander on That’s Normal, I came across this gem: A TN Faceoff: Theo James vs. Sam Heughan, and knew that I had found my people. Fellow fangirls who understand the intense love that is developed for our favorite characters, and who happen to share two of my favorite book characters. And so I thought you all might appreciate a little How To guide on how to take your fangirling to the next level, based on some personal experience with the Divergent series.
18 Ways to Take your Fangirling to the next level
Step 1: Begin reading Divergent. Become obsessed. Stay up way too late reading, wake up early to read before work. Read while stopped at traffic lights on your way to and from work. Fall in love with Four and Tris.
Step 2: Once you’ve finished reading the last book of the series, text all of your friends who have already read the books, asking for advice on how to continue on with your life.
Step 3: Google everything you can about the movie, the actors, authors, and anything that has anything to do with Divergent. Stumble across a casting call for extras in Insurgent. Click immediately, and read through descriptions of what they are looking for. Get super excited when you read one of the descriptions “beefy with a beard” because you are married to a guy who is in fact beefy with a beard. Begin plotting how to get him on board with this.
Step 4: Take head shots and full body shots of your husband in your back yard. Because that’s totally professional. Send them into the casting company.
#beefywithabeard
Step 5: Wait to hear back. After a few weeks, forget about the whole thing and assume nothing has come of it.
Step 6: Come home from work one day to your husband smiling ridiculously at you and have no idea why. Play his silly games that he makes you play to try and guess what he is trying to tell you. Freak out when you figure out that the casting company has contacted him and wants him to go to Atlanta for 3 weeks to be an extra in Insurgent.
Step 7: Apologize that you never told him that they had a code word for the movie, so that when the casting company called him about it, he thought it was a prank call and had no idea what they were talking about, and then they laughed at him for thinking it was a prank call.
Step 8: Devise a way to get him out of all work and other commitments (including family vacation with your parents and sister) so that he can go to Atlanta for 3 weeks and work 14+ hour days getting paid very little, all so that he can hopefully meet Theo and Shai and become bffs with them.
Step 9: Take the day off work to drive 6 hours each way to Atlanta and back with him for his fitting. Because he is a celebrity now and has things like fittings.
Step 10: Try to be cool while your husband is assigned a designer and tries on lots of different clothes and they take pictures of him. Resist the urge to take pictures yourself and get him kicked out of there.
Step 11: Be super thankful that your husband has personality for days, and if there is anyone who could make friends with movie stars while on set it is him. If you were the one going, you would be an awkward mess.
Step 12: Send him to Atlanta while you go to the beach with your family and wait for him call you every day when they’re done filming, to regale you .
Step 13: Freak out when you hear that he met Theo and Shai the first day while at the port-a-johns. Learn first hand that this is actually true:
Step 14: Tell all your friends that Miles Teller approached your husband on set, and thought he was Michael Fassbender!!!
Step 15: Become a Miles Teller fan once you find out how funny and goofy he is in real life. And because he calls your husband Fassbender whenever he sees him. And is generally cool and willing to talk to extras while they film and share a little bit about his life.
Step 16: Freak out when he tells you about a scene that Miles, Theo and Ansel were all shooting together, and that he totally punked them while they were on set. What is this life?
Step 17: Love your husband a little bit more because even though he has met famous people who you have been obsessing over for weeks, he has spent most of his time getting to know a lot of the other people involved in the making of a movie like extras, production assistants, assistant directors, make up team, etc.
Step 18: While it isn’t likely that your husband is going to become the next big movie star from his background work in Insurgent, appreciate the experience and lots of stories that he came back with, and admit that you are ridiculous for making him do this, and that you may have a problem. But with all that red hair and beard, you better believe I’m keeping my eyes out for opportunities for him in the next season of Outlander!!!
