So...Ya Wanna Be An Actor???

The Making of CAPITAL GAMES Part 6:

Why? Why would anyone on this planet want to be an actor?
I thought it was a wonderful glamorous adventure where everyone smiles, drinks champagne, goes to premieres and has parties rubbing elbows with the elite-

WRONG! (or maybe right, but not during shooting)

Good God!! These actors, and I mean everyone from my two pretty boys to the extras, are in boiling heat, coated in make-up and doing take after take, after take...all in their minds praying, "Say we don't have to do this scene again!!"

Lucky me- I sit watching a screen at 'video village' (Oh, yes, I'm getting all the lingo down- and it's like learning a foreign language) with headphones on my head and watch magic happen. Everyone else is going out of their minds getting it right. My heart goes out to each and every member of my spectacular cast and crew. They sat in a boiling hot conference room (nope- can't use A/C it screws up the sound) in suits and ties, sweating like they were American tourists in the Sahara, and God love them, they did a very complex scene again and again-
The reason for the retakes are so plentiful...even I can see a hit or misses now- technical mistakes, shadows, misplaced items, and of course flubbed lines.

Although I am filming the 'Making of Capital Games' as well- seeing the antics of the crew and actors, the hilarious puns, (since we are making a fun free-for-all with so many hidden messages I should make it a contest to find each pair of 'blue balls' or champagne bottles placed as if they were erect cocks. Oh dear- yes, it's that damn funny.

But the work these two leads are doing? They are in every scene- so they are the most amazing young men I have met to date-

Do the whole take again? Yes, they do it again, and remember long paragraphs of lines. Yes! Movement? Facial expressions? They do it all. I am overwhelmed and all I am doing is sitting and watching.

By the way- they did it to me, yes, they roped me into a cameo. You won't even see me- I hope. Kind of like Alfred Hitchcock, he is somewhere in his film lurking, like where's Waldo. Yes, I am in there- what can you do? They needed a body and luckily I was hidden so well you may never get to see me!!!
Let me tell all you boys and girls out there who dream of being an actor.
YOU'RE INSANE! But I love all of you!

Never give up- take after take-
NEVER GIVE UP! Because eventually the director says "CUT!" and you move on.

Be safe out there-