Multi-Facial is a 1995 American short drama film written, directed, produced, and scored by Vin Diesel, who also stars as a multiracial actor facing various professional and emotional issues.
Mike later calls his manager and complains about the monologue, which was not a true story, saying it was offensive and worrying that it will keep him from getting the role.
Mike does the reading with her in a heavy urban accent, but the casting directors cut the audition short because they are looking for more of a "Wesley type".
He then sits down and delivers a monologue about being a young man watching his father on stage in a performance of Raisin in the Sun.
The film is semi-autobiographical, drawing on Diesel's own frustration trying to find work as an actor of mixed ethnicity.
[2] Diesel wrote a script for a feature film called Strays, but was unable to secure financing for it due to being unknown.
With encouragement from his stepfather, he finished the final edit and screened it at the Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan.
At age 27, Diesel "would drive around [Los Angeles] with VHS copies of [the film] in the trunk just in case [he] bumped into someone who could help [him] with [his] dreams".