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First shot of the day is faking Melanie driving, which makes her nervousbecause she doesn't drive. We're just sitting in the parking lot with theguys pushing the car for the first "stuck in a traffic jam" shot. Thensomeone has her turn on the ignition, which she does, and she gives ahilarious little scream and quickly turns it off. Later a group of us are standing in Melody's kitchen, shooting the breeze. Iask Englishman Patrick where he's from, and he says Bristol. Welsh Bethansays "Ah, near me." He asks where she's from, and when she says Cardiff, hesuggests he should fight with her then. She smiles and says, "Yeah, a scrap!"At lunch, Patrick and his art dept partner Andreas start joking with eachother, Patrick picking a fight. Andreas asks why Patrick is picking on him.I ask Andreas if he's from Cardiff. He looks at me confused and says"Sweden!" Patrick laughs and explains the joke, almost. |
I discover the stage in Sylmar is further than I thought, and I break speedrecords getting there. There's no craft service and I'm very hungry, soassistant props Petros offers to steal me away for a McDonalds run. Idefinitely need it, but having arrived on the set late, I don't want to leaveagain for food (as script supervisor, I'm supposed to be the boringresponsible one, and of all people, I should have eaten before I got to theset). Petros says we'll tell - no, ask - A.D. Clint and it shouldn't be aproblem. "We'll say we'll be back in 6 minutes and hey, there's no craftservice!" he assures me. So Courtney radios Clint and he says fine, much tomy surprise. While we're driving to McD's, Petros comments that he can't seeClint really having a problem with us doing this, but he can understand hisconcern. I say, yeah, he's worried he'll release the one person who'll holdup everything if suddenly they're ready to shoot. Petros agrees, and suggestswe should drive on to Tijuana to teach him a lesson. At McDonalds, we eachget the #2 - 2 cheeseburger extra value meal. Petros suggests super sizingit, since we're not sure when crafty will arrive. I'm thinking more along thelines of showing up on set of a hungry crew with tasty-smelling fries. Petrossays that's not really a problem for him. We get back and I share my frieswith Mark, who's enjoying them so much I give them to him. Melanie alsomunches on some, and the cheeseburgers remain safely in my possession. |