That 4
Friends Movie
Day 21 - Thursday night
Mom’s birthday, so I call her before I leave for
work – not nearly enough time – and she tells me they saw Jane on Jay
Leno the other night, and they mentioned the movie.
So I’m speeding to set and look in the rear view
mirror and see I forgot to put on make-up, so when I get there, I make
a bee-line for Make-up, and thank God, Stella and Enya are there.
I ask them if I can borrow an eye pencil and explain my situation, and
Stella puts me in the chair and does my eyes, lips and cheeks.
I get to the set, where everyone, including GC
Matthew, are rehearsing. Harry looks over at me and smiles,
saying, “Well, aren’t we pretty today?” I smiled, bashful, and he
followed with another smile, “Well, you’re pretty every day, but even
more today.”
At the catering truck, I saw GC Matthew was now
wearing dark fingernail polish. I mention it to him, and he says
we never saw his fingernails in the previous scene we already
filmed. Later, Tracy told me that Matthew had gone shopping
that day and found the nail polish. It’s called “Dog,” and he
thought it would be good to wear. I promised to mention it to
Alfredo, who said he didn’t want to challenge Matthew so early in
the day, it would be fine. During the close-ups of Matthew
handing items to the other characters, the nail polish really stood
out. Alfredo turned back to Alice and said, “The polish really
works in this.”
While ADs Michael and Steven were trying to
encourage rolling film, Steven announced over the radio in MovieFone
voice, “If you would like to roll film, please press one.”
Gregg has now been parked for over an hour with the
actors, once again plunging them deep into script discussion, and I
tell Wardrobe Marcy and Tracy how robbed I feel that all this time when
I’ve
wanted to hear them trade movie war stories, Gregg moves in and they’ve
spent the last four weeks talking about the next day’s scene which
he’ll be re-writing. Tracy agrees, telling me for the fifth time
with dead-eyed stare, that he should just go home. (Gregg really
lost it with them when he started giving them wardrobe suggestions for
the extras.)
We wrap GC Matthew for the film, applause, and he
signs my cover page with a heart and an arrow through
it.
While waiting for lunch or the next shot, whichever
came first, I sat with Tracy, Marti, Keri and Diane. There were
guys there at first, Brady and Kent and Ed the Security guy, but they
drifted off when our conversation turned feminist, beginning with Marti
doing some deadly knife work chopping onion for soup and I suggested
she throw it at a tree with a tomato threw it (“Like Long Kiss Goodnight,” I tell Tracy,
“did you see--” and she immediately quoted the film with “Chefs do
that.”). Then Kent stumbled back in and said, “Oh, no, not
again. I know lots about women – my roommate went on and on the
other night about exfoliation.” Dead silence. I’m thinking
Run away, manchild. He left. Keri turned to us and said,
“He defines discussions of women by exfoliation.”
At lunch, we decided to continue the theme and sit
at a girl table, where the only two taken seats were Thomas’s and
Kent’s. I sat next to Thomas and told him how bummed I was that
there was only a few days left that I would see him and I haven’t heard
any cool stories.
Chit chat, and I rest my fork and he suddenly says,
“You look like you just got full. On that one bite.” Of
course I had to agree, and he said, “I saw it happen.” Then he
asked if I minded, no not at all, and he took my plate, saying he’d
been eyeing the marinara sauce for his vegetables.
I turn back to Marcy for lunch chat, and she’s
telling Tracy about her relationship with the actors, particularly GC
Matthew. “He hates me,” she said. “What?” I asked.
“Especially after the shoe tantrum.” “What?” I say again, but
with more interest. Matthew wanted to wear his own shoes for
both scenes, and she said she’d have to check with Alfredo because
they’ve all ready shot a scene with him and she needs to make sure they
weren’t seen on screen. He told her she was fired, and we
laughed. Then she told Tracy how he introduced us to his friend
tonight, “This is Marilyn! And this is the wardrobe girl.”
Then I promised Marcy and Tracy I’d get the Tony winners off the
internet for them, as it’s been weeks since they were announced and a
friend of theirs, a fellow Broadway costume designer, was nominated and
they’re too embarrassed to call at this late date and ask her if she
won.
Next shot, Jane and Thomas do Thomas’s emotional
scene,
which works very nicely for Thomas. Then Jane’s wrapped, and we
do
a scene with Richard and Thomas. Almost done for the
evening. I ask Alfredo if he’s sure he doesn’t want to do a quick
sunrise shot of the tents. He says he’s sure, the set up wouldn’t
match the Griffith Park stuff. I ask if he couldn’t do a shot
over the edge of a tent with the sun coming u—and I feel AD Michael’s
arms around my waist pulling me away from Alfredo and any discussion of
more shots. Then Richard sat next to me at the monitor and I
asked him about winning a Tony. “Did they cut short your
acceptance speech like they did with Ralph Fiennes?” “Oh, yes,
but I kept mine short.” I told him my plans to have a funny
celebrity like Bill
Murray read my Oscar acceptance speech. He asked why, would I
have him say “Marilyn is a mute”? I told him I’d have him explain
that no one wants to hear writers say their words. He smiled.
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