As I mentioned in my last blog post, we were extras in a film starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw on Wednesday night! We were quite naive in going, which only adds to the humor of the night. We thought that we'd show up, they'd feed us our free food, and then have us walk across a street a few times, and we'd be out of there within a couple of hours. Well, at about 11pm the person sitting next to us made a comment about how she was there filming the night before until 7am!! What!?! This is not what we signed up for! Then, we also found out that everyone around us was getting paid to be extras...and that we had somehow wondered into an area where we likely were not supposed to be. BUT, the man in control of the whole thing had already placed us only 6 rows back from Sandra Bullock (whom we learned goes by Sandy) and Tim McGraw, and only 1 row behind another actor with a speaking part. And at this point, we'd already done several hours worth of filming. Not that our roles were too important, in fact we realized we are really bad actors. We had to pretend to be engaged in a high school football game. At about 1:30am, they excused us for "lunch" and fed us again... Finally at about 3:30am Dana wisely asked if they were going to be re-shooting any of the scenes we were in, or if we could leave...and leave we did. It was a fun experience seeing what the movie filming process is like...tedious!...and we got to hear "Sandy" say over and over again her line which was, "Hey crotchmouth why don't you zip it or I'll come back and zip it for you."...hmmm..not very attractive, and yes, I did laugh almost every time she said even though we were supposed to be straight faced. :)
Dana and Me on "the set"...
That's Sandra Bullock standing up about 6 rows in front of where the photo is being taken from...
Yesterday we spent the day at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center a few blocks from Dana's house. If you ever find yourself in Atlanta, you must go...we loved it! And, the whole thing is free! They have a great museum area for children as well, which even for us (as adults, or so we like to pretend to be) to go through was very inspiring! I've always been moved by Martin Luther King Jr's movement and non-violence approach and speeches...but I had no idea as to how much he (and his wife!) did. Lots of tears...both of sadness and joy...he truly changed our country.
Back at Dana's we had a fun evening of eating push-ups and playing euchre...you may take the girls out of Michigan, but you can't take the Michigan out of the girls. :)
Tonight we are doing a house concert at Dana's, and then tomorrow morning we are leaving for Shreveport, LA where we'll do another house concert tomorrow night!
1 comment:
nice adventures in atlanta! i agree, i think i would have laughed every time! maybe you need to be in a more comical scene for your next movie!
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