The Ugly Truth - another 4 days

Starting last Thursday, I worked for another 4 days on The Ugly Truth. It's a great set with a great crew. Not only is it great to have multiple days like that, but it's a great production to work on. I was hoping we would be back at KCET in hollywood, but that wasn't the case. They were filming in an old police station office in Glendale. Glendale is a little more of a trek for me, but since the call times were almost always 7:15, traffic wasn't bad at all and it was easy to get there. The first day was a rough one for me. I had worked late the night before on Snowflake, so I was a little sleepy. When we were waiting in holding, I decided to close my eyes to rest for a bit. Not sleeping, mind you. =P When I opened my eyes, my contact in my right eye had dried out (that's why I don't sleep or nap in my contacts). Somehow it managed to scratch my eye. I think I had scratched my eye the previous sunday by rubbing my eye too hard when I took a shower, but it had seemed ok. The dried out contact was all my eye needed to scream bloody murder! My eye hurt so bad, so I rushed to the bathroom to take it out ... usually that makes the pain go away. Didn't happen. My eye was killing me ... I could barely keep it open. So, I found the medic and he was very nice. He helped wash my eye and since there was nothing in it, decided that it must be scratched. He had these eye drops, that I swear, are like the miracle eye drops, and I must figure out what they were and where to get them. He put one drop in my eye and it had a refreshing sort of feel, like peppermint. At that time, everyone was coming to set to be placed in the scene. The AD was so nice and put me on a seat, so I wouldn't have to walk around and potentially bump into things (I only had 1 contact in). After about 15 minutes, in the blink of an eye (I couldn't resist), my eye just simply stopped hurting. It was those miracle eye drops. And people kept thinking I scratched my other eye, because my scratched eye was beautifully white, and my other eye, with the contact still in so I could see, was a little red from all the strain. lol
That is about the most eventful thing that happened while I worked there. They were shooting all the news office scenes, so we kept coming back to get put in the background for various office scenes. I wore my glasses for a few days so my eye could heal, and all seems to be well now. =)
If you're reading this, and you have some idea of what kind of eye drops I'm talking about, please post a comment. I've got to get some!

edit ... I found them! Rohto is the brand name and they are listed on drugstore.com

Snowflake

Last Wednesday was my work day for Snowflake, the one I'd been in for a fitting recently. It's a Wayan's bros. spoof on dance movies and it was their version of Dirty Dancing. The location was out in Malibu/Agora Hills but since the call time was early, the drive wasn't too bad. Calamigos Ranch was beautiful and it was nice to be out in the "country" for the day. The set was in a little barn and looked fabulous. The scenes we did were funny and ... interesting. Not my kind of comedy, but the guy playing "Johnny" was great. Doubt you'll be able to see me at all, but, with the outfit I was wearing, I think I'm ok with that. Other girls had on much cuter early 60's outfits on. The worst part was all the atmosphere smoke they pumped into the set. Usually it's not all that bad, but since the little barn was so small, it seemed to be a little overkill. All in all, it was a good day.

Race to Witch Mountain - 4 Days

I started working on Race to Witch Mountain last Wednesday, and we were recalled Thursday, Friday and Monday. It was a fun shoot. Got picked to be a dancer and so did the guy I met at the interview. We worked at the special ability rate and 3 of the 4 days were 14 hour days, so I'm looking forward to the paychecks. On the first day, wardrobe had boots with swede on the sole for all the dancers. The ones they had picked out for me were too wide, so they wanted me to wear my black boots (they're not cowboy boots). I had never really danced in them and boy did my feet hurt by the end of the day. We did a lot of dancing that first day. 4 songs of two stepping and 1 line dance, which me and my partner just did a swing dance to in the back of the dance floor. Since, you couldn't really see our feet, the next day I wore my dance sneakers which made a huge difference!
I met a lot of really cool people. There were some couples that go out dancing regularly at the Swallow's Inn in San Juan Capistrano. I'm hoping to drive down there some day soon to check it out.
Here's a picture of me and my dance partner for Race to Witch Mountain.

Driving in LA on a Friday ...

is always so much fun!
I woke up fairly early and began working on some paper work. Even though I'm not working in the casting office any more, I still help the casting director out with all the extra paper work ... and there was tons as of Thursday. So my plan was to finish it up and then head into the office so that I could print it all out so she could sign it and fax it.
I was scheduled for a costume fitting at 5:00 for the film Snowflake which happened to be down town. So I finished up my lovely paper work, jumped in the shower to get ready for the costume fitting and arrived at the office by 2:ooish. Since I had to drive to down town on a friday evening, I left the office at 3:30. It wasn't the easiest place to find, but it wasn't too hard either. I got there 10 minutes early and the fitting only lasted 20 minutes. The wardrobe department seemed tired and unemotional. The changing area was a haphazard put together tent, with the walls only going half way down and the wind blowing them steadily. They handed me an outfit, I put it on and they snapped a picture. It really seemed to me that a fitting like this could have just been done on the work day, but hey, I get paid $32.50 for my time, and that's almost a tank of gas. The work day for this is supposed to be on May 14, and it's for a spoof scene of dirty dancing.
Driving home sucked, but it wasn't as bad as I had expected, thankfully. Since the fitting ended up not taking so long, I think that helped. As I was pulling into my parking spot, I got a call about the film I had gone to an interview for (the country western dancing thing). They picked me and also added a day. So I get 4 days on Race to Witch Mountain now. Still hoping it turns into a dance contract, but either way, it's 4 days of work, so I'm not complaining.

In other news, I took my first exam for dog training online on Thursday. I passed but the grade hasn't been posted yet. My second exam is due on Friday, and since I know I'm working Wednesday through Friday (Race to Witch Mountain), I'm going to study for it this weekend and take it as soon as I can.

Interview - Race to Witch Mountain

I had an interview yesterday for Race to Witch Mountain at Central Casting at 2:00. It was for a country western club scene where they want people that can look and dance the part. So I put on my best "going to a country western bar" outfit and arrived hoping there would be a guy that knows how to dance that I could dance with. There was a 2:00 group and a 3:00 group, and luckily I found the one guy that knew how to 2step, etc in my group. They put on some music and everyone danced. Then they had us all do some line dancing ... electric slide of course since everyone knows it ... well not everyone. It was fun, and made me realize I need to get out and dance more.
Unfortunately, there is no dance contract, but it is for 3 days of work, so I can't really complain.
And who knows ... that could change ... it's happened before. =)
If I get picked it works next week.