bouncyGood evening Ladies and Gents! So the pressure's on...the Yankles Blog has climbed to a whole new level...*drum roll*...we're on Google! That's right, if you search for "The Yankles" guess what's first on the results...none other than Trevor Jerome's Yankles blog. CONGRATS TO ME!!!!!! hehe Thanks to Dusty our 1st A.D. for discovering that last night. He was trying to see if we had made it onto the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) yet, and came across it hehe. Now, Dusty has to be the coolest guy ever. He's good at what he does, and he's freaking hilarious as well. He's the guy that usually calls action and gets everything set up for the shot. Each time we get ready to shoot a scene he says something along the lines of, "Alright, let's do this baby! Just like a real movie!" hehe it makes us laugh everytime. So much, it made it on as today's title.
We just finished filming Day 3 (out of 15 for me). What a day. We took ourselves down to BFE...the middle of no where...to a land where no man seems to go anymore...the lovely town of Payson, UT and the old Peteetneet Academy (now a museum). I'm not sure that this town has seen this much action before. We had worked out a carpool and it made the drive much more fun. It actually didn't take us very long at all to get there (maybe 40-45 minutes)...we got there over an hour before our call-time hehe. So we just hung out and had some awesome breakfast (Thanks Pig Boys)...they're our caterer!! YUM YUM!!!
For the first little while we Yankles got to just hang tight at our Trailers as they filmed "Gus the Bus Driver" (who actually isn't Black like the script says) painting new lettering on the school bus. I was able to get some really fun shots while they filmed that scene
After they shot that, we moved over to the Exterior of the School to get shots of everyone arriving for School, etc. This was particularly cool because of the fancy equipment such as the camera crane. Nicholas was pretty excited about it actually. He pretty much wet himself over all the cool stuff. He's way into that!! I was one of the "lucky" ones chosen to be seated on the bus. As it pulls up, me and a few others step off of the bus and walk down the walkway into the school. And I say "lucky" because I seem to be put in the most hot and steamy of places. The extra's kept complaining about how it was really hot outside, and we kept saying "Well, it's worse on the bus so you have it easy!" But then they naievely stated, "Well, if the bus was on, I would be jealous." What they didn't know that the bus didn't have A/C, so turning it on would....oh, make no difference what-so-ever...in fact, it would probably make it worse with the heat from the engine. I was getting much better at the accent, when I remembered to use it, so that was good. I need to practice as much as I can before my close up shots with the lines I have hehe.
Once we were done with that shot, we made our way over to the eating/lounging area/shade while we waited for them to film some other things. This was the beginning of a lovely 4.5 hour wait. A few of us managed to sit and talk and laugh about a lot of stuff during this time. Britt the P.A. who just happens to be Dusty's daughter is sooooo great. She caught on that we LOVED the Twizzler's Nibs that craft services made available to us, so she packed a bunch in her little pouch, and was constantly asking us if we needed some. SHE ROCKS!!!
So...we waited and waited....and waited. It was finally like 12:30 and we asked "When's lunch?" they said..."3:00 PM!!!" YIKES!!! That was too far away, so Britt took orders of what types of Sandwhiches we wanted, and had them make some for us. Again...she ROCKS!! :)
As we sat there and talked, and laughed many funny things came up....We tried picturing Sir Ian McKellan as Eddie Murphy and how it would come across. It had us laughing really hard. Then Michael Buster (Who plays one of our leads...Elliot) came to the table with a freaking HUGE pickle!! I was sooo jealous of his Pickle. It was much better than mine on set yesterday...just a nice, big, juicy pickle, and he just kept rubbing it in my face!!!
Soon after that, I can't even remember what we were talking about, but all of the sudden Nicholas said something (pretty much out of nowhere) that would end up being my favorite quote of the day: "Rape is Fun *cricket*cricket*" LOL it's one of those situations where you just had to be there, but it was hilarious.
Lunch FINALLY came at 3:00 PM, after we had still been waiting to do something. It was a good lunch. I had Lasagna and Chicken and Salad, but seemed to put WAY too much food on my plate. They gave us 30 minutes for lunch and then we had to change into our Baseball Uniforms to take a "Team Photo" for the movie. After the 30 minute photo, we had to change back into our school outfits, and continued waiting for another couple of hours again. As we were waiting, the dark storm clouds were rolling in and it started to rain...so we ran for cover and 4 of us piled into my trailer to wait it out. There we discovered that old people have dust farts, and we sang to Matt's wife on the phone. He called her mom by accident and we laughed pretty hard.
The time finally came for them to shoot one final scene for the day (a shot of me, Malasa, Eliezer, and Elliot coming up the stairs and walking in the hall. haha piece of cake. After that we were wrapped...THANK GOODNESS! No more sitting around and waiting. And we made our way home. It was a really fun day, and I'll upload some pictures to show you how crazy it was. This blog got really long, and it's way past my bed time. Tomorrow, we'll be down in Payson AGAIN, so I'll keep you posted on how that goes.
CIAO!
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