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Tiring Twelve Hour Day
Today I got to work on the show V and it was an early call as my start time was about 6:30am and lasted till about 7pm. It was just simple background work. I actually haven’t had to work a 12 hour day in awhile too. There were quite a few people...
Crunch Time Type of Feeling On Stargate Universe
Looks like for whatever reason the scheduling on this show is getting jumpy. I never seen the call times get changed so many times too. The shoot even went past 12 hours which is supposed to be extremely rare for this production. It’s almost lik...
Saw One of My Acting Coaches On Set
What a cool surprise this was. While working on Human Target today I thought that one of the actors looked eerily familiar. Similarly, he saw me and was giving me that look as if we knew each other somehow. Funny enough, it was one of the acting c...
Wonder What Human Target Is About
Got a phone call today about doing some work on a TV show called Human Target tomorrow. I was just trying to do some research about it and it looks like an action show. I never actually worked on this show before. One thing it made me think of was...
Boiling Hot Caprica Shoot With A Lot of Familiar Faces
Haven’t worked on this show since the pilot. Today was a doozy too as it was filmed outside in the scorching sun and I would say a good half of us got some kind of sun burn or sun tan by working on this set. The keyword for me working on this set...
When Pay Does Become A Factor
Recently I was asked by my agency if I wanted to do some simple background work for an upcoming movie. It would be pretty demanding too as they wanted people for about 2 full weeks. The hours were pretty gruesome it seemed such as some of them star...
Getting Direction From The Stargate Director
Interesting day this was. I was back on Stargate Universe today as expected as part of a continuity shot from last week. Let’s just say, today involved work that required me to be on the ground a lot which was unexpected. However, another thing ...
Guess Fringe Is Shooting In Vancouver
Just got a call recently from my agent asking if I wanted to work on the TV show Fringe and I agreed. I always thought this show was shot in the US and so it was kind of surprising to me that it is shooting here in Vancouver. I must admit, I have no...
Brisk Day On Stargate Universe
What a surprising day this was. Upon arriving to the bridge studios and heading to the holding area, there was literally only one other person. I figured we must be just darn early as there wasn’t even a wrangler to help us sign in for the day. A...
Warm Day On The Set
Still kind of tired from working on Stargate Universe set today. It wasn’t too bad time wise as it lasted for about 8 hours or so for myself. The first thing that seemed to have created some confusion was indeed the wardrobe. As mentioned previo...
One of Those Early Bookings It Seems
I got a notice that I will be back on Stargate Universe tomorrow and it looks like it is an extremely early morning call too. As well, it looks like there might be some interesting stuff as usually when the production provides all of the wardrobe fo...
Special Requests From Casting Directors
Recently my agent has been telling me that all of my calls for background work has apparently been special requests from the casting director of the show. Usually when it is they just ask if I am available to work on a certain day or not. It was th...
Late Night Call And Time Push
I got my call time recently and it looks like it is going to be a snoozer as the shooting won’t start until the late evening. This is highly likely going to go into the late early mornings as a result. One thing that came to mind is how the new ag...
Defying Gravity
Today I did some very quick work for a show called Defying Gravity. My agent asked me if I could work on this pretty late last night and I mentioned that I could do it. There was this guy on the set dressed up as a Easter Bunny handing out chocolat...
Funny Stargate Universe Booking Blooper
So today I was booked to work on Stargate Universe again. It was an interesting “oops” experience too. When I first saw the map location it looked like it was going to be within the downtown area here in Vancouver. It appeared as if it was goi...
Icarus
Today I got to work on the set for a movie called Icarus. It was pretty fast and was primarily an Asian call due to the nature of the scene. There was a lot of downtime for the most part and the majority of the time I spent was playing a Nintendo D...
The Good Wife
Wow I was on this set for a long time yesterday. It was for a CBS tv pilot called “The Good Wife”. From what I gathered it had something to with a politician who went to jail for some reason and later in life the wife goes into the world of bei...
Those Very Late Call Times
Looks like I am going to a set tomorrow for some simple background work and as of now I still haven’t got an exact time to be on set. These are the worst when they wait all night just to tell you that you are needed at the very early morning. Ju...
BC Film Productions For The Upcoming Months
I got an e-mail notice today from my background agent as apparently casting directors are letting everyone know how slow it has been but that things will definitely be picking up. With that e-mail came with a list of products that are scheduled to s...
