Remember the film I was cast in opposite hat woman? Well, filming dates coincided with my vacation. The last day of filming being the day I’m flying back from Florida. Oy. So I quickly offered my apartment as a location. I was the only one in my scene. I’m on the phone in the scene. The director said OK. Which was awfully nice of him ‘cause he could have bagged my ass and gotten another actress.
So the day comes to go home. I travel most of the day. Sit on a packed plane with not enough air. Eat a mini bag of Fritos and a micro mini Kit Kat and a Diet Coke for dinner on the plane. There was a sandwich, but it scared me.
Take a cab home. Drop my bags. Call the director who is parked a block away waiting for me. Run and wash my face, brush my teeth and let Visine work it’s magic. Had to change. Actually considered the velour lounge outfit since I was tired, but rallied and put on slacks and a nice silk blouse. Did a turbo makeup job.
We started at ten p.m. DP’s and lighting sometimes take forever. And it is night, and they have to make it look like day, because the other half of the phone call was filmed in the afternoon.
But I so lucked out. The DP has done massive amounts of like big work. So he walks in and says, “Sit there.” Then he sets up one big light that he bounces off a mirror and it’s daylight. Then he recruits my husband to hold a square of tin foil and periodically move it a certain way and now we have cars going by reflecting the daylight on my face. Ingenious.
I do the first take and it goes fine. So did the others, so we got it done in an hour. And my husband did a bang up job with the tin foil square. And the director and DP and sound guy were total dolls. Like so happy to be doing what they’re doing and all. This makes Cranky Actress happy. A little bit of film magic in my living room.
It’s funny how things in life work. You have to do a ton of things one day and the next you’re left staring at the ceiling.
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