The Low Down on Traveling
I'm done with Traveling. They needed us for four days. The first three days, the main actors were there too, but yesterday they were just filming crowd reactions all day.
We were in a big crowd scene. So the story is that Burke Ryan is a self-help guru about grief and loss and he's giving this seminar and we're at the seminar. So we were in a scene on the first day where he's introduced and we had to all stand up and clap and cheer as he ran down the aisle. We did that about 20 times, at least. They had to do all different shots and all different angles. Burke Ryan is played by Aaron Eckert. He shook my hand once on the way by and gave me a high five another time.
Then there's Lane, who's Dan Folger (Balls of Furry) who was introducing him. He'd stand there and make jokes between takes, which were only mildly entertaining... but it was cool anyway. At least he had some personality and interacted with us. Aaron was really standoffish toward everybody and really cold. It was like he was in his own little world the whole time. He'd pace around he was always so serious. I don't think I ever saw him smile the whole time unless, of course, he had to in the movie.
Well, Dan had his eye on me the whole time. I'd see him looking at me all the time. He said "HI" to me a couple of times. But then again, EVERY men had would stare at me as a walked by. One woman said she used to be a modeling agent and that I should model. She said I had the look, the stance and the walk- that I look very confident. It makes me wnat to do it... suck it and spent that money that I don't have on some headshots- starve for a week or something and get it done. Maybe it'd be shalow, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
Anyway, back to the shoot... the second and third days, Martin Sheen was there. He was pretty cool... he'd interact and goof around with us... didn't take it seriously at all, which was pretty cool. Yes, I was less than 2 centimeters away from all theses stars- if that kind of thing impresses you. Which I have to say, they didn't impress me AT ALL. They're just regular people... they just hapen to get paid a lot of money. To be honest, I feel like I've seen a whole new side of the film industry. You know, you go to the movies and you see the final product and everything's perfect and cool looking. But god it's LONG days and take after take of doing the exact same thing over and over and over again. The work for the actors isn't glamourous at all... it's actually work. Hard work too, I'd say... they have to memorize all those lines everyday. And they're there for so fucking long. I think the most glamorous part about being a celebrity is OUR PERSEPTION of them. It's more glamourous for us then it is for them.
But hey, I'd still like to give my headshots to Nella and try for a princible role.
Anyway... day 2 I did a scene where I walk by while Aaron is giving out autographs and Martin walks by and bumps into Lane. It's an important part of the movie cause Martin Sheen is Burke Ryan's father-in-law of his dead wife and he kind of exposes Burke as a fraud cause he's never gone through the grief process of losing his wife, yet his up there giving a seminar telling other people how to do it.
Then day 3 was MORE crowd scenes, but this was last day of the seminar and Burke confesses to the audience that he's never grieved over his wife's death and he blames himself and tells us he killed his wife. Then Martin Sheen (Silver in the movie) comes into the room and tells Burke that it was just an accident and that it wasn't his fault and they hug and then we slowly start applauding. I have to say we did this take the MOST times. At least 20 times thatday, and then another 20 the next day for crowd reactions.
Of course of the last day was all crowd reactions to different scenes. Then they started cutting people... but I wanted to be in the next scene so I didn't volunteer. Greg had already been wrapped... so he had to wait for me. But I ended up dogging the wrap cause they were only wrapping a few people in my group. So I waited and waited and waited and at about 10pm (I'd been there since7:30am) they started calling in NEW people for the last scene. So I ran in. It was a scene where Burke asks this guy to talk about his son's death and he does.
Then we wrapped at 11:30pm. And I'm done with Traveling. Hopefully, you'll actually get to see me on camera.
And that was it. Now, I'm waiting for more calls.