More Tales from the Movie Set
Dec. 20th, 2002 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMom is on a roll! Here's another installment in the Movie Journal... (Note: BG is short for Bishop Gadsden which is where she lives and Judy Spence works there and coordinated the movie thing. And I don't have the heart to tell her that the director is Nick, not John...)
There were probably 10 of us from BG. The bus took us to a tent which was for coffee and breakfast. Turned out there were lots of trailers nearby. The trailers were wardrobe, lighting stuff and all sorts of things including one with toilets in it. The toilet trailer was awful. It was clean, but impossible for me to get into and out of. Richard (Futch) stood at the bottom of a metal ladder of stairs. Mind you we most of us didn't have climbing shoes on. I had Sunday shoes. He held my purse which was loaded with make up and stuff and I put my hands on a step, stepped up, then repeated that action. There were maybe 8 steps. The top two had a rail to hold on to so that worked. It was almost like climbing up on ones hands and knees. Coming down was even worse. Of course coming down we had relieved ourselves so it wasn't exactly necessary to hurry or anything. Well, for this inconvenience we were usually standing in line.
The place that we walked to from there (about a short block) was a building #31 by name. It looked as if it must have been an office building. See, we were on the OLD Navy Base whatever that is. Well, it had no water and no electricity. It had toilets that people were using (not BG) that couldn't be flushed, so that is why we had to use the others/
In the first tent there was food. It was a pretty chilly day, but the main problem was the food and the plates got cold fast. So I ate two cinnamon rolls and a banana and had coffee.
Then we signed up so that we could get our pay. Without waiting too long, we walked to Building #31, sat down in a front room until they wanted us. They took us in a few at a time. Richard had said we would have our make up done and our hair done however they wanted it. So having rushed around a lot that morning I had NO make up on not even lipstick. They took me in and put me in a wheel chair (part of the background). They had drafted Judy Spence as a nurse, so she was my pusher. Then they told us to wait in a hallway with glass windows to look through to the nurses desk and the waiting area where people sit and wait. Eventually they came by and put lipstick on Judy. No one touched me - hair or otherwise.
More later................
--------------------- This is later... just thot I'd add it here -------------
Ok, so we went through this pushing down the hall routine about 6 or 7 times. There were other people doing action things. There were people we passed. There was a gurney with a patient on it (James Garner), and there were others. We all had to start on cue. Not too fast, not too slow, etc. Finally we had about two "takes" and that did it. During all this there were four people sitting at a table with food in front of them. They had something to drink in their cups, but they were not allowed to eat the food.
Then later after one other wheel chair scene, they had me join a threesome that were working out with barbells. There was an aid teaching two to exercise with barbells. They handed some to me (still in the wheel chair) and I joined the work out. The director decided we should not all be working in unison so the director (John Cassavettes) decided that I should not be in rhythm with the others. I did either a very good job or a very lousy job. Afterwards he came over to me and said that was the funniest thing he ever saw. We didn't try to do it again, so he was either serious or facetious.
During this whole thing there were people all over the place and the only time things were calm was when they said "action". Then we were doing the scene. Otherwise there were electricians, cameramen, handymen, etc. all over the place.
Then we went back into the little waiting room and sat waiting to be led back to the tent for food. Finally we got our time sheet receipts and loaded up to go home. I was exhausted. I had three naps the next day. We were to be called back, but I do not think there was a single person that would have come. The confusion was fierce. The talk, talk, was incessant. Toward the end John C. told the sub-director to get everyone to shut up. I would have applauded if I could have done it quietly. This ends my movie career. What a way to earn a living!!!!!!!!!
There were probably 10 of us from BG. The bus took us to a tent which was for coffee and breakfast. Turned out there were lots of trailers nearby. The trailers were wardrobe, lighting stuff and all sorts of things including one with toilets in it. The toilet trailer was awful. It was clean, but impossible for me to get into and out of. Richard (Futch) stood at the bottom of a metal ladder of stairs. Mind you we most of us didn't have climbing shoes on. I had Sunday shoes. He held my purse which was loaded with make up and stuff and I put my hands on a step, stepped up, then repeated that action. There were maybe 8 steps. The top two had a rail to hold on to so that worked. It was almost like climbing up on ones hands and knees. Coming down was even worse. Of course coming down we had relieved ourselves so it wasn't exactly necessary to hurry or anything. Well, for this inconvenience we were usually standing in line.
The place that we walked to from there (about a short block) was a building #31 by name. It looked as if it must have been an office building. See, we were on the OLD Navy Base whatever that is. Well, it had no water and no electricity. It had toilets that people were using (not BG) that couldn't be flushed, so that is why we had to use the others/
In the first tent there was food. It was a pretty chilly day, but the main problem was the food and the plates got cold fast. So I ate two cinnamon rolls and a banana and had coffee.
Then we signed up so that we could get our pay. Without waiting too long, we walked to Building #31, sat down in a front room until they wanted us. They took us in a few at a time. Richard had said we would have our make up done and our hair done however they wanted it. So having rushed around a lot that morning I had NO make up on not even lipstick. They took me in and put me in a wheel chair (part of the background). They had drafted Judy Spence as a nurse, so she was my pusher. Then they told us to wait in a hallway with glass windows to look through to the nurses desk and the waiting area where people sit and wait. Eventually they came by and put lipstick on Judy. No one touched me - hair or otherwise.
More later................
--------------------- This is later... just thot I'd add it here -------------
Ok, so we went through this pushing down the hall routine about 6 or 7 times. There were other people doing action things. There were people we passed. There was a gurney with a patient on it (James Garner), and there were others. We all had to start on cue. Not too fast, not too slow, etc. Finally we had about two "takes" and that did it. During all this there were four people sitting at a table with food in front of them. They had something to drink in their cups, but they were not allowed to eat the food.
Then later after one other wheel chair scene, they had me join a threesome that were working out with barbells. There was an aid teaching two to exercise with barbells. They handed some to me (still in the wheel chair) and I joined the work out. The director decided we should not all be working in unison so the director (John Cassavettes) decided that I should not be in rhythm with the others. I did either a very good job or a very lousy job. Afterwards he came over to me and said that was the funniest thing he ever saw. We didn't try to do it again, so he was either serious or facetious.
During this whole thing there were people all over the place and the only time things were calm was when they said "action". Then we were doing the scene. Otherwise there were electricians, cameramen, handymen, etc. all over the place.
Then we went back into the little waiting room and sat waiting to be led back to the tent for food. Finally we got our time sheet receipts and loaded up to go home. I was exhausted. I had three naps the next day. We were to be called back, but I do not think there was a single person that would have come. The confusion was fierce. The talk, talk, was incessant. Toward the end John C. told the sub-director to get everyone to shut up. I would have applauded if I could have done it quietly. This ends my movie career. What a way to earn a living!!!!!!!!!