New Friends. New Family. New Experience – Acting in a sci-fi web series

by Leo G. Herra

I have been acting since I was a child and always dreamed of being a big time actor that made it to the big screen. That was my dream for the longest time. As I grew older it had become altered to match more of a reality. I said to myself “I would really like to make a living doing independent films.” Now this is my dream today.  I have also created something new to go along with that “I would really like to make a living doing independent films…with a cast and crew like Chutes & Ladders every time I made one!”

Leo G. Herra as Alejandro

Chutes & Ladders has changed my life, not just my acting life, but my actual whole entire life. I was very excited when I got cast in the project because before that I had bombed my last two auditions and I had felt pretty bummed about that. When I found out about this I couldn’t have been more ecstatic, I was jumping for joy at just landing the role. I didn’t know what the project had in store for me but I always had a thing for sci fi and I believed Miguel knew what he was doing. He sent out all the information for the table read and Chutes & Ladders was well on it’s way to becoming a huge step in my acting career.

I was a bit nervous about my performance the first day I got on set because it would be the first time I acted in some ones project other than my own.  I also had no idea how Miguel ran a set or how professional it was going to be.  Once Miguel got everyone into place for the first shot I knew that I had nothing to worry about. As the weekends went on and the project hit more snags, the cast and crew started to feel more like family to me.  This was my first set so I had nothing to compare it to but what was going on with this project felt right. I was never more certain that I wanted to do this for a living then when I was on the set of Chutes & Ladders. I felt comfortable and very relaxed knowing that if Miguel saw something he didn’t like about my performance or felt it could be better he would let me know. I also was thankful for my fellow actors on set who brought out fantastic performances and each and everyone had done something that let me grow as an actor. I truly was humbled by the experience of acting in Chutes & Ladders. I loved every second of filming and I hope at some point in the near future (No pun intended) I will be back on set with that same cast and crew having the most fun you can have filming a microbudget sci fi web series, which I can tell you from experience is a whole lot of fun!