Bone Deep

Well, the small work drought had come to an end Sunday when I received the call saying I would be working on the movie set of 'Bone Deep', I would be playing the arduous role of "hotel guest" switching over to the highly complex role of "street pedestrian".

All sarcasm aside, the location was shooting at the famous Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood and I was excited as I have yet to visit. Just a couple items of note, this hotel was the site for the 1st Academy Awards, Marilyn Monroe's ghost is said to be seen dancing in the ballroom, and various respected actors have resided here including: Charlie Chaplan, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, even Minnesota's own "Purple one" stays here!

The first half of the day was spent strolling a 25 yard section of Hollywood Blvd. as the camera shot from the 3rd story window of the hotel, as the thieves (principal actors) made their way to the hotel. Nothing too exciting to report about this scene, it was 7am...even the crazys were still sleeping I believe. The rest of the day would be shot inside the hotel, where the bulk of my scene would involve utter chaos and panic, as gunfire rang out, and we all were to react. I was picked (along with 7 others) to start on the 2nd floor with the principals (Paul Walker, and 2 more rapper/singers-turned Hollywood movie stars "TI" and Chris Brown) as they made they're way downstairs. I cannot even tell you how many takes we did of this, as there were so many people to direct, but I hated those steps by about the 17th reset.

Last scene of the night, I was outside of the hotel with a few other background actors as we were cued up to walk into the hotel entrance. Well, between all the takes we were to just sit tight outside with the 2nd AD, until the director yelled "Action". Well, this made for quite a show outside...as we were on Hollywood Boulevard smack dab in the middle of the tourists...and with all the lighting and equipment outside as well as us standing there in our fancy wardrobe, it wasn't long before the digital cameras were flashing, the fingers were pointing and dozens of people were just standing there staring at us, like we were the celebrities. Haha, it was really a creepy feeling!

When I got home that night I received a call from EM, saying I was booked on Brothers & Sisters at Disney Studios tomorrow morning...call time @ 6:30am!

Brush. Shower. Sleep.