It's just completely insane and random how things in life come to pass. After years of freaking out over building some kind of tangible career, of stressing over how in the world I was going to ever take the tiny baby steps to get me anywhere in life, it just lands in my lap.
As most of you know, this past week I have been doing extra work on the set of a film called Greenberg. Directed by Noah Baumbach and starring Ben Stiller. I got the job because Mariana has a friend, Zoe Di Stefano, who originally auditioned for the lead and though she wound up losing the part to this trick, Noah loved her so much she asked her to come back and do a party scene and have a few lines. Zoe is da bomb. Noah and or the casting director decided that for the party scene they should invite friends and family of the cast to do background work as opposed to hiring real extras. That's where I came in. Zoe asked Mariana to do it and Mariana asked me, and I asked Ty. Cherish was also involved.
We knew that there was the off chance that we would get SAG vouchers but were really doing it for the cash munny and for the opportunity to hang out on an awesome set and watch Noah and Ben work.
It seems that after this project is over tomorrow morning, both Ty and I will be able to join SAG which is a HUGE HUGE HUGE step in our careers for both of us. It signals a kind of sea change in the way not only in how we will approach getting jobs but also in the way people respond to us and the opportunities that we will get as a result. Needless to say, we are beyond thrilled. Over the moon, you might say.
Now I shall give you the deets. Basically we show up around 4 or 5 pm and check in with the 2nd 2nd AD named Ian, who Ty has tentatively renamed the King of the Extras. Then we go to wardrobe if they didn't like what clothes you brought and change into what they gave you. They like my own clothes so I don't have to. (Thanks for the hat Max, I think it brought me good luck cuz peeps think I'm adoro) Then we literally sit around for hours. Thank baby Jesus that Zoe has a bungalow because she has lines, so we go and hang out in there. We usually have breakfast around 5pm, then hang, read, play guitar, until rehearsal which last night was at 8pm. Then after that we had lunch and began filming around 1o pm. Last night they only used Ty,Mariana, Zoe and myself until about midnight then we went back to Zoe's suite and made up insane harmonies and played with internet cameras and were all around delirious until about 2 30 am when we went back on set for an exterior shot. Only worked about a half hour then we were wrapped for the night. I got home at 4 am.
Tuesday night they used me a TON more, basically in the party scene, if you are so interested in knowing, they had me placed in various positions and doing some crosses during the party. I worked from 10pm straight til 4 am that night. It was totally worth it to get to watch Ben work.
He is incredibly generous with all the actors as well as the extras and really takes the time to connect with everyone in the room. He has been very polite and gracious, especially considering that he is old and probably really tired and he has two small children. He told yesterday that when he got home Wednesday morning at 5 am he stayed up so he could play with his kids all day. BALLER. He is basically awesome. And he said hi to me last night when we practiced our cross a few times because I am supposed to cross right in front of him.
Noah Baumbach is THRILLING to watch. He is adorable, first off, and he is really respectful of all actors and when you make eye contact with him you feel your spine melt from the intensity.
This experience has been so incredibly fun and I am so lucky to have been able to go through it with my friends. Tonight is the last night of shooting and while I am glad to not be a vampire anymore I will miss it. Even though its only been 3 nights! I get so attached. geesh.
Shout out to Zach Appelman. His friends (now my friends) Davey Franco and Talia are also working on the film, Davey has a really great part and he is the cutest individual I have met in a long time. They also know my lovely friend Amy Gumenick who has also had quite the week. I hope everyone watched the Natalee Holloway movie on LMN because she was spectacular!
Ok I know the epicness of this epic post was almost too much to handle, but i had to share. I will have more details of the final night tomorrow. I hope that they let me jump in the pool. You get paid more for doing crap like that.
OH ps. and just so that God could remind me to not get too happy, this morning, after getting home at 4 am, my next door neighbor decided to cut down the enormous tree that lives right under my bedroom window at 8 am. It was just cruel. I was so tired and confused. I mean who does that? RUDE. What the hell kind of GD shit is that?
We knew that there was the off chance that we would get SAG vouchers but were really doing it for the cash munny and for the opportunity to hang out on an awesome set and watch Noah and Ben work.
It seems that after this project is over tomorrow morning, both Ty and I will be able to join SAG which is a HUGE HUGE HUGE step in our careers for both of us. It signals a kind of sea change in the way not only in how we will approach getting jobs but also in the way people respond to us and the opportunities that we will get as a result. Needless to say, we are beyond thrilled. Over the moon, you might say.
Now I shall give you the deets. Basically we show up around 4 or 5 pm and check in with the 2nd 2nd AD named Ian, who Ty has tentatively renamed the King of the Extras. Then we go to wardrobe if they didn't like what clothes you brought and change into what they gave you. They like my own clothes so I don't have to. (Thanks for the hat Max, I think it brought me good luck cuz peeps think I'm adoro) Then we literally sit around for hours. Thank baby Jesus that Zoe has a bungalow because she has lines, so we go and hang out in there. We usually have breakfast around 5pm, then hang, read, play guitar, until rehearsal which last night was at 8pm. Then after that we had lunch and began filming around 1o pm. Last night they only used Ty,Mariana, Zoe and myself until about midnight then we went back to Zoe's suite and made up insane harmonies and played with internet cameras and were all around delirious until about 2 30 am when we went back on set for an exterior shot. Only worked about a half hour then we were wrapped for the night. I got home at 4 am.
Tuesday night they used me a TON more, basically in the party scene, if you are so interested in knowing, they had me placed in various positions and doing some crosses during the party. I worked from 10pm straight til 4 am that night. It was totally worth it to get to watch Ben work.
He is incredibly generous with all the actors as well as the extras and really takes the time to connect with everyone in the room. He has been very polite and gracious, especially considering that he is old and probably really tired and he has two small children. He told yesterday that when he got home Wednesday morning at 5 am he stayed up so he could play with his kids all day. BALLER. He is basically awesome. And he said hi to me last night when we practiced our cross a few times because I am supposed to cross right in front of him.
Noah Baumbach is THRILLING to watch. He is adorable, first off, and he is really respectful of all actors and when you make eye contact with him you feel your spine melt from the intensity.
This experience has been so incredibly fun and I am so lucky to have been able to go through it with my friends. Tonight is the last night of shooting and while I am glad to not be a vampire anymore I will miss it. Even though its only been 3 nights! I get so attached. geesh.
Shout out to Zach Appelman. His friends (now my friends) Davey Franco and Talia are also working on the film, Davey has a really great part and he is the cutest individual I have met in a long time. They also know my lovely friend Amy Gumenick who has also had quite the week. I hope everyone watched the Natalee Holloway movie on LMN because she was spectacular!
Ok I know the epicness of this epic post was almost too much to handle, but i had to share. I will have more details of the final night tomorrow. I hope that they let me jump in the pool. You get paid more for doing crap like that.
OH ps. and just so that God could remind me to not get too happy, this morning, after getting home at 4 am, my next door neighbor decided to cut down the enormous tree that lives right under my bedroom window at 8 am. It was just cruel. I was so tired and confused. I mean who does that? RUDE. What the hell kind of GD shit is that?
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