Heehee. I was in the big going-to-the-caves sequence, when Leo and his family arrive on the bus. It was supposed to take place in Tennessee, but they filmed it up in the Santa Monicas, like I said, pretty close to where I used to go for the Renaissance Faire back in the 80's. I'm passing in the background during the part where Leo says he's going back and his dad gives him swag to trade. The dark-haired woman with the short-sleeved beige shirt looking around - that's me. I'm just there for a couple of seconds, but it was great.
Little acting trick: a friend of mine at the time told me about doing background on The Truman Show, and how Peter Weir insisted that all his background people actually act, and not just take up space. So when I did the Deep Impact job, I decided that I had lost my family in the big shuffle and I was desperate to find them. So I acted that in a small way - because you NEVER want to draw focus when you're background - just to give the impression that these were actual people and not zombies. I guess it must have been fine, because nobody told me not to do it, and it ended up in the film, yay.
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Date: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 07:15 pm (UTC)Little acting trick: a friend of mine at the time told me about doing background on The Truman Show, and how Peter Weir insisted that all his background people actually act, and not just take up space. So when I did the Deep Impact job, I decided that I had lost my family in the big shuffle and I was desperate to find them. So I acted that in a small way - because you NEVER want to draw focus when you're background - just to give the impression that these were actual people and not zombies. I guess it must have been fine, because nobody told me not to do it, and it ended up in the film, yay.