Between getting my ass slapped around by Coby (which Julie is still pissed about, not that I got slapped by Coby, just that she didn't get to do it and call it art) and being tied to a table on the coldest recorded night of the year, I think I just might have pulled this Will character off.
I hope so anyway. Last night we shot the finale of the movie. It was the longest shoot of the movie so far, for me anyway. Normally when I am on set of a film or show, there is a lot of "stand around and wait", "go to holding and wait for someone to call you, hang out at the craft services tent, someone will be around soon", Not so much on a Ben Green Film, which by the way makes the day go by quickly, last night someone said, "wow, it's 11:00" next thing I know its 1:20 am and I am on my way home. After a 30 minute shower to clean the blood and make-up off, I crawled into bed at about 2:15 essentially ending my day that began about 5:15 am the day before.
It went fast, but it was friggin cold in the work room of the theatre strapped to that damn table. For one scene I had to (in the words of Ben) "Arc Blood", it took me about 20 tries with water before I was willing to "try" with the blood (I didn't want to make too much of a mess, waste blood, or look like an idiot, which I think was a total waste of time) I could just hear all the experienced guys thoughts . . . "friggin amature". Just kidding, actually everyone was very supportive, between Joyce and Coby keeping me cleaned up and keeping my shirt from riding up, I felt like a star there for a while. Anyway after all that practice we got the “blood arc” in two takes, so I hope it came out well and Ben wasn't just wanting to move on!
Will's fatal gun shot is another story, we had a Squib set up under my shirt using a technique Ben found on the internet, it was a really cool idea and it worked great each time, but because of over compression during my death scene, it resembled something seen in a Kill Bill film, blood just came spewing out of my body and actually hit the ceiling of the work room, they are easily 15' high ceilings. On film it looks like a geyser erupted from my chest cavity, Ben says he can fix it in post; I look forward to seeing that.
Rafael came in from Houston to play a part in the film. It was good to finally meet him, everyone around the theatre has been telling me since the day I started hanging around there what a great guy he is, and it was nice to finally understand what they all meant, he made it look so easy sliding in and out of character. He was a lot of fun to be around; I hope someday to work with him again.
One big thing happened last night, and I have to give her credit for it. Last night Coby made a comment about something that essentially ended my writer’s block of almost two months. I think I finally have a conflict for my character in my screen play thanks to her, now I just have to make it happen. Coby asked if she could be in it when we film, and I said yes, what she doesn’t know was that from the first night we read together, I started writing a part for her and was hoping she would want to take it, funny how all that happens. Anyway all in all it was a great night; I can't wait for the final product to be finished.
