A Conversation I Recently Had On Set
(I did not make ANY of this up)

Players:  Random Boy (RB), Clueless Girl (CG), Bewildered Bonnie (BB)

BB (to RB):  Where are you from?

RB:  Delaware.

CG:  Oh cool!  Is Delaware a state?

RB and BB (exchange glances):  .....Yes.

CG:  Is it in Maryland?

RB:  No, a state can't actually be inside another state.

CG:  Oh yeah.  I never took Geology.

RB and BB blink.  Pause.

BB:  I'm sorry, what did you say?

CG:  I never took Geology.

RB and BB blink again.

BB:  I think you mean Geography.

CG:  Oh yeah!  tee hehe

Pause.

BB:  You do know what Geology is, right?

CG:  Of course I do.  It's that math with angles and stuff.

Hmm....let's see, an update of my life since May 31st, 2008....

Well, I'M SAG ELIGIBLE!!!!!!   In other words, I got my third voucher (not to mention 4th and 5th vouchers too!) and I can now join the Screen Actors Guild and get paid at least twice what I make as non-union.  I can't tell you what movie I got them on cuz then I'd have to kill you but I must say the food on that set was AMAZING!!  And by amazing, I mean even better than the normal awesome food that I get on sets.  Considering I'm a "starving artist," I eat quite well! 

One movie I CAN tell you a little about is Public Enemies. 
Reasons why I liked working on it:
It takes place in the 1930s.  Hooray for awesome clothes!!
They only used girls with shoulder-length hair or shorter.  I win!
Oh, did I mention it stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale???

Reason I did NOT like working on it:
Oh. my. word.  the heat. the sun. the brightness. the layers of clothes.  the lack of shade. the heat.  the HEAT.

But the clothes were still pretty awesome.

Random question of the day:  What's your favorite kind of cookie?

Currently Reading Redeeming Love By Francine Rivers see related

So I guess it's time to update.

This past week has been quite an interesting mix of shows and roles.  On Wednesday, I was a bartender on Prison Break.  Shh, don't tell Cedarville.   Good thing the props guy already had the drinks poured because I am utterly clueless when it comes to alcohol.  I guess I faked it well enough.

On Thursday, I was a civil war re-enacter on Without A Trace.  I went to a fitting the week before and was one of the only girls who was given a hoop skirt!  It was quite a fun day but I was more than ready to lose the corset and hoop skirt by the end.  Ladies, be VERY glad that we live in the jeans and t-shirt era!

Yesterday, I worked on Monk as a boxing fan.  And frankly, half the extras I worked with were dummies. 
Yes, literally dummies.

I named this guy Tom.  He was comfy to lean on:

Me trying to be as stoic as Tom:

So that's a quick snapshot of my life these days.  Hope you enjoyed it.

Random question of the day (same as last time):  Know any good books (especially fiction)?

Currently Reading Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film, and Culture see related

I GOT MY FIRST SAG VOUCHER (and first two AFTRA vouchers too)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   For those of you unfamiliar with what I'm talking about, this is very cool.  If I get two more SAG vouchers, I can join SAG (Screen Actors Guild) and get paid over twice as much as I make now.  Good times.

Stories from my life as an extra:

So I worked on this movie and I'm not allowed to say the title.  Anyway, it's a satire about people in the entertainment industry.  The scene was an Oscar-like awards ceremony and there were two hosts:  some guy I didn't know and a Paris Hilton look-alike (she looked prettier than Paris Hilton to me).  I didn't find out until lunchtime that her "look-alike" was actually the real Paris Hilton!   Yeah, I'm dumb.  But she is definitely prettier in real life when she is not posing for a picture.

I like working on the show House.  So when I heard it on the work line, I listened.  The recording said they needed "really attractive women to be striking nurses."  hmmm.... well, I wouldn't consider myself "strikingly attractive" but I've been a nurse on the show before so I called in and got booked.  When I got to set the next day, I found out we were nurses on strike picketing outside the hospital.  Hence, we were "striking nurses."

On the sitcom Til Death, I was a roller rink patron on Thursday.....for 12 hours!  Let me tell you, there is a very good reason why rollerskating sessions are only about 2 hours long.  OW.  My feet and lower back were crying at the end of the day.  But I got to be on set with Brad Garrett (Robert on Everybody Loves Raymond) who is very nice, very funny, very tall and very bad at rollerskating.  All in all, it was one of my favorite days as an extra.

I was a high school student in Zac Efron's new film, 17.  I was expecting him to be a bit of a diva, but I was pleasantly surprised.  He was a hard worker and really nice to everyone, even the extras.  It was funny, though, to watch him study himself in the mirror and make sure every strand of hair was exactly where he wanted it.   Hunter Parrish plays the bully in this film.  He and Mary Kate Olson were the people who sold me pot in a scene in the show "Weeds."  When I was on the set of 17, he came up to me and asked if I had worked on Weeds before and then asked, "Did I sell you pot?"  I said yes and then realized the other people at my table were very confused.   Tee hee.

So that's a glimpse of my current life in Hollywood.  It isn't always as glamorous as it sounds, but it is fun and every day brings surprises.

Random question of the day:  What are some of your favorite books?  (I have lots of down time on set and get bored with Sudoku)

Random stuff:

Extra work is FINALLY getting back up to speed this week.  YAY!!!!!!!

I worked on the movie Armored yesterday with Laurence Fishburne, Matt Dillon and Columbus Short.  I was a bank customer unaware that my bank was in the middle of being robbed.   The coolest thing I learned yesterday was how they make it look like the actor is driving without making them control the vehicle.  On top of the armored truck, there was a go-cart-looking contraption without wheels....kinda like this...

Every piece of it was painted bright green and the guy inside it was the one actually controlling the vehicle.  So the actor gets to look all intense and in control in the "driver's seat" while the little green man on top really drives and gets green-screened out of the shot in editing.  How cool is that??  I was impressed.

I had something else I was going to tell you, but I forgot what it was.  Drat.  I'll think of it later.  Meanwhile, I'm gonna go down to San Diego for the weekend.  Woo hoo!!!