A Good Old Fashioned...

So I arrive on set (I still can’t believe I’m saying that) and it’s so cool. My first stop is this big tent (which by the way is air-conditioned- crazy) where we check in and hang out until we go to wardrobe. I end up meeting this really cool chick, Janna, and we kinda stick together all night. We go to wardrobe and I end up wearing my black Sloppy Joes tank top complete with hook and eye clasps all the way down the front, my jean skirt, white platform flip-flops and my hair in pigtails with big red scrunchies. It was horrible. Funny thing is, I didn’t have to buy anything, all that stuff was mine(except for the scrunchies). Should I be worried about that? Anyway, from wardrobe, we walk down the street to the house were the movie takes place. It’s ok, it’s supposed to be a house in the Hamptons, but I don’t think it would pass for it- whatever, they didn’t ask me (but should have!). So we get placed around the pool, and we are told to dance and look like we are having a good time- but not to make ANY noise, because the microphones are SUPER sensitive. It was really funny, and I met some cool people between “takes”. And it was really cool, because I ended up being on set with some of the people from Saturday Night Live (they are making the film, so it should be pretty funny). However, I have to say, none of the “actors” look like they do on T.V., in real life, I didn’t recognize any of them until people explained there prior rolls to me.
About 10 “takes” into it, I asked Janna what the title meant, I said “I don’t get it, a good old fashioned... what?” here I was thinking a good old fashioned, ya know, like the drink. Oh no, she fires back with “A Good Old Fashion Orgy” WHAT?!?!?!? Oh my LORD! What have I gotten myself into? I couldn’t help but laugh, I told her I had no idea that was what it was, and she laughed too. But just to make it clear- I kept my clothes on (duh) and none of those scenes were filmed that night.
So we are around the pool, filming the same scene for about 2 hours, then we break. We are all kinda hanging out, and then they "cut" about ½ of the extras. And at first I was a little annoyed that I didn’t get cut, you see, you get paid for 8 hours weather your there for 1 hour or 8 hours, then after 8 you get paid more and so on. But then I started thinking, “hey, they want me in more of the movie” HA! How cool is that?! So we go film another scene on the other side of the house, and I do a walk by!!! I walk right by the camera!! I get my 2 seconds of fame! Ha! it was so cool. If you see this movie when it comes out, there is a scene with a girl in bright yellow pants with a guitar on her back, with a guy that rides up on a motorcycle, if it makes in to the final cut of the movie, that’s the part that I walk by the camera! So look for me!
THEN they end for the night (around 3:30am) and they said they wanted everyone who was just in that scene to come back on Monday and Tuesday! They wanted me back! Ha! But I couldn’t because it conflicted with work, and $56 just isn’t enough to blow off my day job. Oh well. This was defiantly one of the coolest things I have done in a really long time. Sorry I didn’t get any pictures, no cameras were allowed on set. I was talking to one of the other extras and he said they are always doing this kinda stuff, and that all I need to do is check up on casting websites. Dan had a rough night the night before; he had to watch a guy that was put on suicide watch. So needless to say, he did not have the energy to stay up until 3:30am, dressed like white trash, fake dancing around a pool. But he said it would be a fun thing to do on weekends, and little extra cash too! Not too shabby.