CHINATOWN CHUCK
Chuck is a Fall NBC action/comedy series that is about a guy who is a computer geek during the day and a government operative at night.
The three leads were in Chinatown this evening and many of us were set-up as atmosphere. Spoon was most likely the 2nd AD and his assistant was Tamera who had a walkie-talkie labeled as "DGA trainee," perhaps another name for 2nd 2nd AD.
I checked-in at 6:30 pm and ate dinner which consisted of grilled hamburger and fried tater tots. I love tater tots and would have consumed much more, but I guess I really have to limit my intake of food these days. It seems like it all goes to my gut now.
Our holding area was in Chinatown and we were placed inside Hop Louie's. Most of the background were older Chinese folks, although there were some Caucasians, Vietnamese and Filipinos. Spoon introduced himself to us and told us not to ask him when we were going to finish shooting because he said we would go until the sun comes up. That's when a silent groan passed through all of us. All I thought was, oh no, not again. I thought staying till 3 am on Journeyman was bad, now this.
Hop Louie's is inside the giant pagoda and it was nice that the air conditioning was turned on. We rested inside and I had an interesting conversation with a guy named Jim. He introduced me to his friend Paul and they both seemed like they were old pros with some time in the business. We talked about nutrition, exercise and war, strangely enough. Paul had brought his laptop and I was curious if he was getting a connection, but unfortunately, there wasn't one. That helped me decide that it is probably useless to bring mine because if I can't play poker, what's the point? I suppose I could work on my scripts, but I'd rather use pen and paper than risk losing or damaging the laptop.
As we shot, there came a point in the episode where they needed someone to purchase some illegal goods. I wondered what made me look like I was someone who purchased anything illegal? I guess it was my age and my clothes. But since Chuck is a comedy, the funny point is that I wasn't buying drugs - I was actually buying fireworks. I'm curious to see what it will look like on screen. The episode we were shooting was #3 but plays as 4 since the pilot counts as episode one on television.
Dinner was served at 12:30 am and as the night wore through, people started to pass out inside Hop Louie's even though the AC had been turned off due to the noise it made. It was so hot inside and so muggy, I just left and had long conversations with Tim, a fellow Filipino who was actually on Entourage. He said he also signed-up with Extras Management and was working nearly seven days a week. I may look into signing up with them if I can't get enough work calling in myself.
I also saw Jessica who was on the WMC shoot with me and met Gwen, a Vietnamese chick who was down to run into a Chinatown bar during our break. Her friend convinced her not to do it because we were "working." She looked like she was game though and had an incredible ass for an Asian chick.
We finally left at 6 am and I finally decided that I would never do this again. Never say never.
Chuck is a Fall NBC action/comedy series that is about a guy who is a computer geek during the day and a government operative at night.
The three leads were in Chinatown this evening and many of us were set-up as atmosphere. Spoon was most likely the 2nd AD and his assistant was Tamera who had a walkie-talkie labeled as "DGA trainee," perhaps another name for 2nd 2nd AD.
I checked-in at 6:30 pm and ate dinner which consisted of grilled hamburger and fried tater tots. I love tater tots and would have consumed much more, but I guess I really have to limit my intake of food these days. It seems like it all goes to my gut now.
Our holding area was in Chinatown and we were placed inside Hop Louie's. Most of the background were older Chinese folks, although there were some Caucasians, Vietnamese and Filipinos. Spoon introduced himself to us and told us not to ask him when we were going to finish shooting because he said we would go until the sun comes up. That's when a silent groan passed through all of us. All I thought was, oh no, not again. I thought staying till 3 am on Journeyman was bad, now this.
Hop Louie's is inside the giant pagoda and it was nice that the air conditioning was turned on. We rested inside and I had an interesting conversation with a guy named Jim. He introduced me to his friend Paul and they both seemed like they were old pros with some time in the business. We talked about nutrition, exercise and war, strangely enough. Paul had brought his laptop and I was curious if he was getting a connection, but unfortunately, there wasn't one. That helped me decide that it is probably useless to bring mine because if I can't play poker, what's the point? I suppose I could work on my scripts, but I'd rather use pen and paper than risk losing or damaging the laptop.
As we shot, there came a point in the episode where they needed someone to purchase some illegal goods. I wondered what made me look like I was someone who purchased anything illegal? I guess it was my age and my clothes. But since Chuck is a comedy, the funny point is that I wasn't buying drugs - I was actually buying fireworks. I'm curious to see what it will look like on screen. The episode we were shooting was #3 but plays as 4 since the pilot counts as episode one on television.
Dinner was served at 12:30 am and as the night wore through, people started to pass out inside Hop Louie's even though the AC had been turned off due to the noise it made. It was so hot inside and so muggy, I just left and had long conversations with Tim, a fellow Filipino who was actually on Entourage. He said he also signed-up with Extras Management and was working nearly seven days a week. I may look into signing up with them if I can't get enough work calling in myself.
I also saw Jessica who was on the WMC shoot with me and met Gwen, a Vietnamese chick who was down to run into a Chinatown bar during our break. Her friend convinced her not to do it because we were "working." She looked like she was game though and had an incredible ass for an Asian chick.
We finally left at 6 am and I finally decided that I would never do this again. Never say never.
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