Eleventh Hour

Well, my first 7am call...which meant I had to get up at 4:30am so I could make it downtown. I arrived on location, and was instructed through Extras Mgmt. that I would be playing a member of a Hazardous Materials Unit (HazMat) and would be in a "white suit" well, I arrived at wardrobe, and sure enough they handed me this paper thin full body suit to try on. I suited up, they approved it. However, one of the 2nd AD's said they needed one more member of the "Blue team" and immediately pointed to me, and said I would now be playing the Blue Team. Well, at first I thought "Hey...this could be cool...maybe this is an upgrade" HA! Boy was I wrong...they gave me my new and improved suit, which was made from some sort of heavy rubber material, and to top it off had the full helmet/mask to go with it. Did I mention it was 90 degrees outside yet?? Alas, me and the other members of my team strolled over to (Holding) where they keep all the background talent until they're needed, and when we entered everyone just gasped and moaned looking at our suits, extras dressed as construction workers repeated "Ugh, I thought we had it bad today" etc...

The scene ended up being quite a bit of fun though as we all hopped into an ambulance and got to fly into the scene doing 40mph or so, and hopped out with the intent to save lives from some sort of contaminated construction site. The show is sort of X-Files meets CSI, and premieres Oct. 9th I believe on CBS...you should be able to see me, as when we hopped out of the ambulance, we were only suited 3/4 of the way. Once I took that suit off though....boy was I soaked. I couldnt help thinking the whole time..."God, I hope they had this suit cleaned since the last time they used it!"