bunny casting

✰ the bunny casting was held at a big casino in leicester square... i was running late from spending way too long on my hair and was stressing to death on the tube... i ran pushing through the crowd to the casino entrance, threw off my flats and threw on my highest heels and slipped into the place at 2 o'clock on the dot.

i was super nervous and totally high on adrenalin and excitement. it was a very professional event: life-size bunny cut-outs were positioned throughout the casino, leading the way to the function room where all the big bosses from playboy and london clubs were there to meet and select 80 bunnies out of 2000 applicants!!

there were 20 girls at this casting and the ones i talked to were so friendly and lovely! we started off by watching a powerpoint presentation about the history of the playboy club which was really interesting. i did some further youtubing back home and found out that the london playboy club was the height of decadence back in the swinging 60's and it was a huge status symbol to have membership. i watched youtube clips of 1960's bunnies with their tiny waists, hot-rollered hair and black-and-white-movie accents,  dancing the twist, greeting guests at the door and serving cocktails doing the classic 'bunny dip' .... in their dressing rooms they smoked vogue cigarettes and talked about their weekly wage of £35 (without tips) which back then was twice the average weekly wage(!)..
many of them were swept off their feet by millionaires and celebrities, though they officially weren't allowed to date their customers. one bunny is asked in an interview does she not think its degrading to women to dress in those outfits, to which she responds 'we wear far less at the beach'.

my good old mum is really excited about the job and has done her own research on the role of the bunnies, assuring me its a very classy role, somewhat similar to a geisha.. i like that comparison... (both are non-sexual jobs just in case anyone's been misinformed..)

the casting event was one big fun day full of activities designed to let the bosses see our personalities shining.. in small groups we wrote and performed singing telegrams on different topics, did maths tests and colour tests with casino chips (bunnies are also trained to be croupiers)... we each tried on a mock bunny outfit and did a photoshoot with the photographer and finally we did one-on-one interviews with one of the bosses. mine went really well since he and i shared many similar interests and the interview was more like a casual but interesting conversation between friends. i came out feeling like he'd really liked me. nevertheless, im not getting too excited since there are 200 more potential bunnies going through the casting process.

i left feeling way too buzzed to go home, so instead i met jerry and sandy at our friend abas's restaurant for a turkish mezze dinner followed by cocktails at my girlfriend igne's bar. she even invented a 'bunny' cocktail especially for me, which was delicious and she refused to divulge the ingredients.

keep your fingers crossed for me!!

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