| Me in 'Wardrobe' practicing my moves before getting ready for shooting |
So Today was pretty uneventful, Did some Savate training (French kick boxing for those not in the know) and also the snow is starting to stick to the ground which is making it look pretty cool with all the flurries and what have you. Feels quite surreal when you look outside through a semi frosted window in the morning with a nice hot cup of coffee and you see all the ledges covered in snow, piles of it on the shrubbery and cars, plus the odd person shovelling loads of it off the side walk (suckers). Anyways I said I would let you know when it really started snowing, so there you have it.
Now YESTERDAY on the other hand was a wicked day. It started off with breakfast with Grundy and Kristie who I hadn't seen since I got back which was awesome and we had a laugh catching up at this place on Dundas which was run by semi comatose waitresses that really had no idea what was going on. It was all pretty darn confusing but hilarious too, especially trying to tip them for service. They were so confused and wouldn't really take the money, maybe they knew that they were bad. Or maybe they thought they were too bad-ass for tips.
Anyway I went straight to the gym from there and hot-footed it home after that to get ready for my big film debut as an extra. My role was as a scientist and I assumed that what that entailed was looking at some beakers for about 30 seconds and MAYBE getting on camera... How wrong I was.
It turns out that I was in multiple scenes and that this was for an up and coming talents new song. So to sum it all up, I was in a music video, my role was as a mad scientist who brings to life this super hot chick who then escapes etc etc. Met some great people on set, there was even a food van. It was all very hollywood and exciting. We had one hickup though, halfway through one of the mad scientist scenes the smoke detectors set off the sprinklers. To me, a few other guys, and the singer it seemed as though a freaking water mains had burst and was gushing all over us. Our white coats had turned grey and her shiny lycra suit was black. The wardrobe people had epileptic fits it was hilarious, they brought in PizzaPizza to appease us extras and after a couple of hours, shooting resumed.
My favourite part of the filming was the fact that it was done in the same warehouse that they filmed the Saw 2 movie, they were even some of the set materials still hanging around. The place is huge so there are still old sets up, it's really pretty interesting walking around the place looking at all the stuff that was left behind.
I think if you get to kill someone and carry on in an emotional way, you may actually be an actor, rather than a background performer! Your career in show biz is off to a fantabulous start.
ReplyDeleteSavate is also excellent as kickboxing will get you closer to the six-pack you can flash to modelling agents, plus you will be able to add it to your resume as a special skill.
By the time I return, no doubt you will have a vocal coach and a personal chef, as well as someone to keep you company every time you head for the bathroom (Montrose.)