HEROES #4

I was worried about getting booked on Heroes since I had to drive to Valencia once. Thankfully, we shot inside the Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood. Traffic there wasn't bad at all for some reason. It got slow at some points, but it wasn't bad at all. I guess people are out of work and students are on summer break.

Anyway, I was cast as a Doctor and worked in a hospital scene. When I checked-in, the PA noticed I was new and said, "you're not black." I guess the guy I replaced was a black guy, but some of the extras felt bad for me because they felt the PA was picking on me. I didn't get that feeling at all and just smiled at him.

He turned out to be an ok guy. He was stressed because the crew was pretty tight and it seemed to me that he was a replacement for someone else. He obviously did not like the show and even commented how much the show sucked.

The scene had us working with Milo Ventimiglia (Peter Petrelli) and Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura). Milo walks by me in one scene and Masi is on a hospital bed in another. The only goof that happened was on one take when I and two extras didn't realize we were taking it from the top and we ran to our first positions and the camera crew cut and said, "we're cutting because we have background scuttling around making noise." Woopsie!

After we wrapped, the craft services lady begged me to take all the sausages home because she said they were going into the trash. What a waste! I took as much as I could and then she gave me an entire tray full of bread. This black guy saw me and said, "damn dude, you ain't playin'!" I was tempted to stop by downtown LA to give the tray to the homeless, but instead, I just gave it to my mom so she could share it at work.