Yep, despite downed trees and power outages, LLA Episode #2 is kind of in the can. Our three newbie cast members JOHN NAGLE, LINA HALL and BEN LAUTER survived the taunts and hazing on set by our regulars. Thankfully, they will also joining us for future episodes!
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| Lina Hall's talents create a tsunami on set! |
Run and gun shooting in LA can be a challenge as everyone knows and fallen trees and down power lines prompted a last minute change of location, so our two day shoot morphed into an extra day and additional pick up shots. Oddly too, our new mic and old camera were suddenly possessed on some scenes, so we had video wavy lines, orbs and static raspy audio at one point like we'd happened upon a ghost adventure reality show.
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| John Nagle and Cory Gluck - DATE HETERO1 |
All in all the weekend was hell of fun. Guest stars CATHERINE BREWTON and CHARLOTTE KYLE had us cracking up with their animated depiction of penis envy. Yep, I said it. Too bad you missed it.
THE B-STORY #2 RUNNING OUT OF TIME
Coming off a fantastic weekend of shooting is always a high. Really who couldn't or shouldn't be grateful for being able to actually create. And I am. I'm grateful to write, grateful to direct, grateful that such amazing actors trust their talents with me. It's humbling always, overwhelming sometimes, that I get to play with such a group of talented men and women.
And of course, I should stay in the gratitude, live in the moment as all the self-help gurus and spiritualists say, but truth is I'm scared. I'm scared I'm running out of time. Yep, I a'int the disco whipper-snapper that I used to be. The six inch platform wearing party-girl who could guzzle beers till dawn and still show up for a seven am class. And I'm not the thirty year old or forty year old I once was, at least not to the development executives, the agents and managers and the financiers who otherwise might be inclined to take a chance and give me a break. So there are days when I wake up and I am scared that my time on the planet in the life I know will run out before my dreams come true.
It's a pressure I put on myself, I know, or my knees put on me when it takes me longer to get up after a shot. But a pressure it is and a real one. When I was younger, when life got complicated and choices had to be made, there always seemed to be another tomorrow to get started on my dreams. But at fifty four, time seems so much more precious and in my case, scarier, because the big break, my big break seems so far away and maybe, too late.
So there you have it, a little fear. A little self doubt. But I don't throw in the towel ever. If I have learned one thing it is that I am a writer/director, I define myself by it and latecomer or not, it is what I will always be. I may be a scared, wobbly-kneed old lady dreamer, but I am still - a dreamer.
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