One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Another week down. A busy one at that. After working on the pilot 'NEXT' on Monday, I went on to work the show 'Lie to Me' the following day. That took place at L.A.'s Union Station. ALWAYS an entertaining day when you work in a train station, downtown, or Subway area. The public always want to watch and get in the way of what we are trying to accomplish. I personally don't mind it, but it does get a little old when the 8th clueless fool walks through the shot brushing shoulders of the star of the show. There was this one woman, who recognized me from something we worked 3 years ago. WHAT?!?! I told her it's hard to keep track of who I meet and where, and she took offense. Sometimes I feel like Woody Woodpecker will come out of nowhere and carve 'That's All Folks' in a tree at the end of days like that.

My favorite example; I was working on Iron Man 2, and we were at some Museum shooting an exterior scene. A slick looking Bentley rolls up, Robert Downey Jr. gets out and starts walking through the crowd of people that were just there to visit, and makes his way to us on set. I'm under the shade of a tree getting water watching all this. I just shook my head, because these people didn't even realize that one of the biggest actors on the planet right now was just weaving in and out of them trying to get to his destination.

Yesterday I was working down on the Venice beach boardwalk for NCIS: Los Angeles, and it was the same situation. The regular folks were cool, it was the crazy store owners that were causing a bunch of ruckus. One VERY INTERESTING woman, who runs a "dress" shop was throwing her hands around screaming that we were taking away business from her. Lady, if anything, we were bringing you business to your wack-ass store. Venice is full of the most original people you will meet in your lifetime. From the colorful homeless to the folks who think YOU owe them something.

Tomorrow I start production on the Web Series 'Dead Grandma' that I have a small part in. So that should be interesting to see this all goes.

"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying." Johnny Depp