A Tale of a Hungry Crew

We filmed in a hotel last week that did not allow us to bring in any outside food. That meant no craft service (the department that provides everything but actual meals) the hotel instead would provide snacks. Well, we come to set the first day and it's teeny fancy soft drinks and Fiji water. We have only yogurt and granola bars to eat. This was bad. We all really missed Reagan and Sanford ( who were keeping busy playing cards in their truck). We came back the next day expecting more of the same instead it was worse. The deal wasn't negotiated properly and the hotel had charged us per drink/snack the day before as if we had ordered individually from the restaurant. In six hours we had run up a $3500 bill. Sanford feeds us for $400 a day. The answer? Don't have anything but water on set. We're working 12+ hours a day and the only food is at base camp which is outside the hotel and more than a block away (except of course for the contraband that will fit in our pockets and must be consumed quickly in dark corners). Awesome. Tomorrow is our last day there. Needless to say everyone will be especially appreciative of all Reagan and Sanford do for us. Time to get back to work boys.

My Story, so far.

As my career has progressed I've had some interesting adventures. I started as an unpaid intern on a low low budget feature in which Burt Reynolds had a bit part. He's a small man in real life. Short, petite (so is David Duchovny, sad right?) I scored a paid position and lost the paid position (my boss was doing a lot of coke and had a fight with the producers). I flirted with the grips far too much, and eventually wrapped the show. I moved on to paid PA positions and within a few months worked on a Rolling Stone Music video. (What?!) I know. Cool. My jobs were never that glamourous though, I mean I worked 20 hours that day for $175. I did buy Keith Richards some vodka from the liquor store in Little 5 though. Score.

Fast forward a handful of years and now I'm a union Costumer. I've worked on lots of stuff and been so blessed. Right now I'm on a made-for-TV-movie as Lucy Liu's personal costumer. It's been great so far. Tomorrow is day 8 of 40. 

An Update

I haven't posted on this blog in over a year. I once was doing movie reviews. I then was watching the AFI top 100 films and writing my thoughts. Well, I became busy. Really busy. I now work in the film industry in the costume department. All this movie making has kept me from movie watching. I thought perhaps my adventures on set (and off) would provide interesting content for my ever changing (and long neglected blog). Let's see how this goes...