Ryan Maloney landed a storyboard artist job on a low-budget film through Craigslist at 20, with no experience. The film eventually released on Netflix as Getting High. He remembers shooting at a Rothschild townhouse in the West Village and his arm appearing in one shot.
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In 2004, I was an art major at Carnegie Mellon University, and all of my friends in their business classes were getting fancy internships in New York City. So I thought, I have to get an internship in New York City. So I went on Craigslist and I found this art director who needed an assistant for this movie. So I got to New York City and she introduced me to the director, and the director was like, you draw? And I was like, yeah, I guess I draw. So he's like, I need a storyboard artist for this movie. So I became the storyboard artist for this movie at 20 years old. I had no idea what I was doing, but I just figured it out on the fly. One day I'd be in the office, and the next day I'd be on set just posting comics on the wall. Making people laugh, hanging out with the cast and crew, like, partying at the La Huerta and eating free bagels and Naked Juices. And this movie eventually went on to go on Netflix and change its name to Getting High. It's pretty much unwatchable, but my arm is in one shot. And then one day we shot at the Rothschilds' townhouse in the West Village, and I was like 20 years old talking to the Rothschild, one of the richest people in the world, and he was a really nice guy. And they had these fridges with Fiji water in every single room, and I can't stop thinking about those fridges with the Fiji water in every single room. It was—
