8/19/09
[My friend] Dominic's here all week. partied too late and had a hard time accepting my obligation to wake up and be a person this morning. At the show now. Audience seems to be staring at us like we're speaking a different language. I'm having a blast, though. This show is so stupid but I'm really having fun with it. Nice now. Final shoot for film today after the show. Emailed agents on Saturday to say I'll now be unavailable until Glass Menagerie is over. So no casting complications. Can focus on Glass solely. So once you get back to Miami is this what you'll do? Will you say no to a play and focus on castings?
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So excited for Glass.
It's hard to believe I'm still having fun with THIS show after 2 months.
You have Macon City after Glass and then maybe Equus in the spring. You can't NOT do Equus if you got it. But the time in December-January could be focused 100% on Film and tv castings.
Betsy come home today. That is wonderful.
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Finished shoot. fun. Easy. sad that that's it...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
"Loving the Bad Man" Day 8
8/11/09
Driving scenes and break room scenes today. After last night, I'm not feeling freat. Just want to get this over with. I don't want to feel this way! I can't feel this way! I have to have fun. Do your thing. Let yesterday go. It's hard. So hot everywhere I go. Car a/c sucks lately. Get to the set, trailers don't have power, so no air. I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I have to prepare a little, right? [Plus there is simply nowhere else to go.] No warm-up, no space for stretching. Bad mood. Babies are here for driving scene. They're twin girls--2 months. The mom is nice, but her brother is always with her and he's an idiot. Like thuggish white boy.
BAD MOOD!!
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Oh, man. Thank god for favors. I felt great about my work today. The driving scenes were short and easy. The break room scenes were longer. Fun. Had to do a bit where I put my tin foiled sandwich in microwave and it starts popping and such and I have to scramble to pull it out. Fun. Then dramatic scene. Felt good. Last day speaking. One more shoot day, but it's just exterior of my car leaving the prison. Glad it ended well.
This is the rig for the driving scenes. Drove around a neighborhood for about an hour. It was fun.
Driving scenes and break room scenes today. After last night, I'm not feeling freat. Just want to get this over with. I don't want to feel this way! I can't feel this way! I have to have fun. Do your thing. Let yesterday go. It's hard. So hot everywhere I go. Car a/c sucks lately. Get to the set, trailers don't have power, so no air. I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I have to prepare a little, right? [Plus there is simply nowhere else to go.] No warm-up, no space for stretching. Bad mood. Babies are here for driving scene. They're twin girls--2 months. The mom is nice, but her brother is always with her and he's an idiot. Like thuggish white boy.
BAD MOOD!!
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Oh, man. Thank god for favors. I felt great about my work today. The driving scenes were short and easy. The break room scenes were longer. Fun. Had to do a bit where I put my tin foiled sandwich in microwave and it starts popping and such and I have to scramble to pull it out. Fun. Then dramatic scene. Felt good. Last day speaking. One more shoot day, but it's just exterior of my car leaving the prison. Glad it ended well.
This is the rig for the driving scenes. Drove around a neighborhood for about an hour. It was fun.
First Commercial Ever (well kind of)
This is the house where we shot.
The kitchen. You can see the in-wall fridge and freezer and the edge of the wine fridge as well. Insane.
This is the yacht that they keep in the yacht garage out back. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the woman who played my wife.~Stupid David. Book this commercial. Agree to shoot it on a day of a show. BUT Green Agency said 1pm. That would put me at the theatre by 2pm. Show at 2pm... It's 10am now. No makeup yet. Slow-going. Very. GOD DAMN MIAMI PRODUCTION COMPANIES! I am freaking out! God I hope this works out.
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I don't know how I got so lucky, but these people were fantastic and really made sure I got out on time. Made it to the show just in time. It was pretty fun too. [The commercial.] The girl was fun. Nice. She was my hot latin wife and was really pissed that I didn't pay the cable bill. Everyone was really nice. 3 1/2 hours=$400. Not bad.
[I just find this journal entry so funny. "The temperament of a Metropolitan star!" How quickly the day can change and the life can change. It's terrifying sometimes, but it's always over eventually. Funny. Interestingly I didn't write about the size of this house where we shot or the fact that I showed up and ended up having an 8-year old daughter in the commercial. Details!]
This is the living room area. Open floor plan i guess.
"Loving the Bad Man" Day 7
So late. Working at "Bay Supermarket!"
The woman in the green is a friend of mine. Her name is Elena Garcia and she is a local actor. She teaches high school at New World (my college...there's also a high school) and was in Summer Shorts with me this summer.
Stupid David.
Just look at them. adorable.8/10/09
Call 9:30pm. Tried to nap this afternoon to no avail. Getting sick. Did "Knish Alley" yesterday for the first time in a week. it was fine. Fun. Spent most of yesterday laying on the couch. Today too. Bad acting today. I don't know. Getting discouraged again. Feel forced. Tired. So Late!! Had the script for a WEEK before shooting. Tough, man. Try to make strong choices, but not very much time. Supermarket shoot tonight. Where Cole and Julie work. Tried to make some fun choices but mostly felt boring. Maybe I'm trying to make something out of something that's not there. Trying too hard. But isn't that what the greats do? Turn an ok role into a memorable one? Just trying too hard. So late!! done at 5am.
"Loving the Bad Man" Day 6
Getting ready for makeup. And being stupid.
Christine (Julie in the film) being haired and make-upped.
This is the actor playing Mike and the two cops rehearsing the scene. Mike is played by a local actor named Arturo Fernandez. He is the Artistic Director of a small but impressive theatre company in Miami called Ground Up and Rising.
This is the cop car that was used for the scene where Mike gets arrested for the rape. I wasn't there for that scene, though.
8/8/09running behind a bit today. new location. julie's apartment. quick scene. i think i have 3 lines. sitting in makeup trailer trying not to sweat off all my makeup before the shoot. The actor trailer finally got here, but they can't turn the generator on because of the noise so I'm staying in the makeup trailer which is full of people and babies at this point.
Ah! The life of a star.
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Quick shoot once we started. A little over an hour. Not too hot. Today has definitely been the strongest I've felt about my acting thus far. Just made clearly defined choices. Had a lot of fun today. Really comfortable. Better with Julie, too.
Friday, August 7, 2009
"Loving the Bad Man" Day 5
This is the first scene I shot of the day. I had to pull a shrub out of this little garden.
This was the result.
This is the lead, Christine (Julie) being touched up by Rori, our makeup goddess.
These are grips and sound guys setting up for a shot. The Honda Element on the left is the car I drive in the movie. I had to pull a baby out today. it wasn't on fire or anything.
Aussie Pete. It's his Element. He's shooting the beginning of the scene that I take the baby out.
This is Antony. He plays Julie's father, Ed. He's large.
This is Peter Engert, the director and Carla the continuity manager. They're watching the shot on the little monitors.
Near the end of the day this guy got mad about us trying to block traffic and called the cops. He was so mad! Betsy said, if was in such a hurry then why did he have time to scream at everyone and call the cops?
He's the one in the white truck. Jerk.
This was the result.
This is the lead, Christine (Julie) being touched up by Rori, our makeup goddess.
These are grips and sound guys setting up for a shot. The Honda Element on the left is the car I drive in the movie. I had to pull a baby out today. it wasn't on fire or anything.
Aussie Pete. It's his Element. He's shooting the beginning of the scene that I take the baby out.
This is Antony. He plays Julie's father, Ed. He's large.
This is Peter Engert, the director and Carla the continuity manager. They're watching the shot on the little monitors.
Near the end of the day this guy got mad about us trying to block traffic and called the cops. He was so mad! Betsy said, if was in such a hurry then why did he have time to scream at everyone and call the cops?
He's the one in the white truck. Jerk.
8/07/09
Yay for preparation. Much better shooting day. Much better focus. Still not 100% for my taste but better. i made good choices today and had ALOT more fun. Outside again. ridiculous hot again. makeup ladies dowsing me all day...again. so cool the sounds all day. "where are we?" "camera one rolling" "camera two rolling" "cameras rolling" "sound rolling" "quiet!! Lock it up! Get that door closed! You have to get out of the shot! You're in the shot! Quiet!!" "Action!"
pretty cool.
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got incredibly dirty digging out a shrub in a scene and falling over as it pops out. i was really fun. i got black dirty. had to take a shower after in the house. some guy came in with my costume for the next scene while i was in the shower. wierd. awkward. shot the next scene where i had to take a baby out of my car. i had a real baby! i worked with a baby in a movie today. check that off.
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in between scenes the executive producer made an announcement that he just found out the financing was secured today for theatrical release in select theatres!! like 800-1200 or 8000-12000 i can't remember. holy shit man! this shit's gone be in the the-atres! god i hope i don't suck.
Day Off
[So I had a rough day on the first day of shooting. I had a hard time calming down about it because nothing had felt that foreign to me in acting in a really long time. So I wrote myself a little note; criticism, ideas, notes, encouragement. These are the kinds of notes I make on every project I work on. It wasn't really what I had intended to blog about, but thought it might be interesting. Sometimes these might be too riddled with expletives and so I may not always put these on this blog. But when I do or if I add something that I hadn't actually written in the journal it will be bracketed. Like this paragraph.]
8/6/09 2:34 AM
Waiting for Betsy. She's on her way home from her first commercial shoot. Need to NOT BE AFRAID. Make the moments happen. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE TRUTH. Focus. Know the moments! Beforehand because he's not going to make em for you. Lines must not even be a thought. No Fear! Do what you do. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE TRUTH. Don't let them affect what you do. Lose yourself. Be strong and not afraid. Laugh in that moment! [The moment in a scene] Crazy big! It IS awesome!
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Rough morning. Bets got home at like 3:30 and wouldn't let us go to sleep for an HOUR. Then tried to wake me up when she got up because she couldn't go back to sleep. She only tried once. had the worst sense of dread this morning. wouldn't go away. Then i got a call from my agent telling me i had booked a commercial! it was one i had auditioned for a while ago. and i should be happy i should be elated! it's overwhelming. all this. happening really fast. and it's not like huge things are happening fast. not hollywood blockbuster things. but ya know medium things. some real things. and it opens up this part of my head that only talks about my career and what this could mean and lead to and what kind of career i should have and what kinds of roles i should take so i don't pigeon hole myself and when we should move and if i should have a serious conversation with both my agents about moving forward and if i'll still be able and want to do theatre in the spring.
so this all happens.
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long time on the couch. betsy makes me feel better. she's nice. i like it. the puzzle has been put together enough by her that i can now swoop in to put in the last few pieces and claim i finished it with her. so i work on it. for hours. and it's great. i worked on my lines all day. started re-reading michael caine's "acting in film". great book. i'm going to be ready for tomorrow.
8/6/09 2:34 AM
Waiting for Betsy. She's on her way home from her first commercial shoot. Need to NOT BE AFRAID. Make the moments happen. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE TRUTH. Focus. Know the moments! Beforehand because he's not going to make em for you. Lines must not even be a thought. No Fear! Do what you do. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE TRUTH. Don't let them affect what you do. Lose yourself. Be strong and not afraid. Laugh in that moment! [The moment in a scene] Crazy big! It IS awesome!
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Rough morning. Bets got home at like 3:30 and wouldn't let us go to sleep for an HOUR. Then tried to wake me up when she got up because she couldn't go back to sleep. She only tried once. had the worst sense of dread this morning. wouldn't go away. Then i got a call from my agent telling me i had booked a commercial! it was one i had auditioned for a while ago. and i should be happy i should be elated! it's overwhelming. all this. happening really fast. and it's not like huge things are happening fast. not hollywood blockbuster things. but ya know medium things. some real things. and it opens up this part of my head that only talks about my career and what this could mean and lead to and what kind of career i should have and what kinds of roles i should take so i don't pigeon hole myself and when we should move and if i should have a serious conversation with both my agents about moving forward and if i'll still be able and want to do theatre in the spring.
so this all happens.
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long time on the couch. betsy makes me feel better. she's nice. i like it. the puzzle has been put together enough by her that i can now swoop in to put in the last few pieces and claim i finished it with her. so i work on it. for hours. and it's great. i worked on my lines all day. started re-reading michael caine's "acting in film". great book. i'm going to be ready for tomorrow.
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