Saturday, July 5, 2008

Extra Work Pays OFF!!

I'm ecstatic. The Film I'm shooting background work for needs me tomorrow. Yay more screen time for me!! Wait Background story, So I registered with a casting agency like three days ago and then the following day I called up their hotline and found out that they needed an italian looking person for a spot as a wedding guest. I called and got the gig.

I show up at this huge like 1800's bank that has been reinvented into a background holding facility and turned out I didn't have the right wardrobe so I got sad at first but then the wardrobe women started dressing me in this too big emerald colored dress and gold everything else. Then she tells me to go to hair and make-up and I'm like holy shit, Disney is rich enough to provide this for extras?

From there wait what seems like an eternity eating from the Kraft table. Then suddenly the PA hustles me across the street to set and I shoot my first scene I was all the way in back of some tall sweaty man thinking what the hell? you can't even see me after two takes the asst. director tell me that I have really great expressions on camera. 

Then comes the big dance scene. A really sweet Dancer pulled me into the dancing circle and we shot that scene for an eternity. Make-up women patting our sweaty brows and fixing our make-up. 

When we rap that the Asst. Director goes girl with the green dress I want you dancing here. Right in back of the Lead couple dancing and he finds me an equally vibrant colored partner to dance with. Mind you this is 4 o'clock in the morning we'd been shooting since 6pm the previous day! So when you see the cute couple dancing behind K-Bell holding each other romantically, umm no we we're kind of falling asleep while standing.

We wrapped at 8 in the morning, all of us staggering out delirious to the subway. I was walking with my dance partner nearly walking right into a moving car. But I was so happy and they are going to have to work hard if they plan on cutting me out of that bitch!

Best Part: They need me again on MON!!!

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