That 4
Friends Movie
Wrap party - Tuesday night
The wrap party was less than fun. It was okay,
just wrap parties - like some office Christmas parties - are usually
strange, noisy, alcohol-soaked evenings,
and this one was no real exception.
Harry wasn't there for I imagine several reasons (he
was probably still sick, he said they'd need to get a babysitter for a
Tuesday night which is difficult, and he's probably been to enough wrap
parties to leave a production with pleasant thoughts of the set and
pass on the wrap party). Richard was in NY, Thomas showed and
spent most of the evening sitting at a table talking to his wife, Jane
showed up and played around the dance floor.
Tony the chief driver (i.e. Teamster) had a little
too much liquor early in the evening and started lecturing me on why I
should be proud to join the union despite my efforts to explain to him
that my local has requirements of 100 payroll paid days on set plus
$4000 that was well beyond my means at this point in my career, plus I
didn't think I had the experience yet to be a union scripty. And
somehow, he went from calling me well-bred to calling me a snob, which
I immediately answered with a protesting "I am not a snob!" which is
the first thing snobs say when called that.
David told me the great sneaking in the basement
story, the best part of the night.
There was a crew raffle for a sponsor bike and
Gabriel won it -- a pleasant surprise, since he was the one guy
on the crew who had to keep lugging the things around everyday.
Jane announced his name, then referred to him as voted the sexiest man
on the set, then realized Thomas was standing behind her
and she quickly said, "Of the crew! Of the crew!"
A few really drunk sexy looking women were dancing
together to the thorough enjoyment of the drunk men watching.
Then I made the mistake of finishing the evening
going to a bar with some crewmembers, all AFI students, who spent the
next two hours bragging about how much better they could have shot the
movie. One of them snidely commented on how all the eyelines were
wrong (keeping the eyelines straight -- which directions actors look to
keep up the illusion that they're looking at each other -- is one of my
responsibilities). I asked him what he meant by that eyeline
thing. He bleary-eyed starts explaining to me what an eyeline is,
I clearly tell him I know what an eyeline is, he looks at me with the
drunken realization of who he's talking to but he doesn't care.
I finally got out of there and went home.
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