Marguerite
Active Member
G'day. It's Wednesday night and I'm pooped.
I was late to bed last night (mea culpa - talking to you guys) and we had an early start (left home 6.30 am). We got to the film set for what we thought was an 8 am call, to find that we should have been rung to tell us not to come in. But here, have breakfast anyway, the catering truck has leftovers.
While we were eating, someone important (hey, I don't know these people) came over and said, "Sorry about the mix-up. You can hang around and watch if you like, or go home and we'll see you tomorrow. Or if you want to stick around, there is a scene coming up where we could use the kids."
We stuck around. On our various treks to the loo we passed various main cast in costume, including Zoe Carides (Anthony LaPaglia's sister-in-law) and later during the scene with the kids, Toni Collette was involved. Our kids were really just a foil for her scene - fair enough. Extras are just portable scenery. So my brush with fame - Zoe Carides told me where the loo was. But I already knew.
difficult child 3 thoroughly embarrassed me by stressing out over the uncertainty of it all, but fortunately they're used to working with autistic kids by now. So if you ever see the film, when the other kids are rehearsing the conga line, difficult child 3 is sitting on the edge of the stage in the background, just watching. You'll probably need to freeze-frame it to see them. We hung around for six hours for it, but at least difficult child 3 has a bit more of an idea what to expect tomorrow, when he is *the star* (for 30 seconds). let's hope he doesn't freak out again, with the lights and gear everywhere.
After that we got back to get easy child 2/difficult child 2 enrolled in her college course, then had our routine doctor's appointment.
I'm cooking a bought, frozen, caterer's pack lasagne and going to bed now.
Good night. Tomorrow is a 7 am call (leaving home 5.30 am!) and after that, it's over. School next week, normality (well, as normal as it gets).
Marg
I was late to bed last night (mea culpa - talking to you guys) and we had an early start (left home 6.30 am). We got to the film set for what we thought was an 8 am call, to find that we should have been rung to tell us not to come in. But here, have breakfast anyway, the catering truck has leftovers.
While we were eating, someone important (hey, I don't know these people) came over and said, "Sorry about the mix-up. You can hang around and watch if you like, or go home and we'll see you tomorrow. Or if you want to stick around, there is a scene coming up where we could use the kids."
We stuck around. On our various treks to the loo we passed various main cast in costume, including Zoe Carides (Anthony LaPaglia's sister-in-law) and later during the scene with the kids, Toni Collette was involved. Our kids were really just a foil for her scene - fair enough. Extras are just portable scenery. So my brush with fame - Zoe Carides told me where the loo was. But I already knew.
difficult child 3 thoroughly embarrassed me by stressing out over the uncertainty of it all, but fortunately they're used to working with autistic kids by now. So if you ever see the film, when the other kids are rehearsing the conga line, difficult child 3 is sitting on the edge of the stage in the background, just watching. You'll probably need to freeze-frame it to see them. We hung around for six hours for it, but at least difficult child 3 has a bit more of an idea what to expect tomorrow, when he is *the star* (for 30 seconds). let's hope he doesn't freak out again, with the lights and gear everywhere.
After that we got back to get easy child 2/difficult child 2 enrolled in her college course, then had our routine doctor's appointment.
I'm cooking a bought, frozen, caterer's pack lasagne and going to bed now.
Good night. Tomorrow is a 7 am call (leaving home 5.30 am!) and after that, it's over. School next week, normality (well, as normal as it gets).
Marg
