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LOL!    :)

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LOL! of course oom! makes sense. goodness gracious. i would love to wear that coat. i bet it is warm, and smells divine!

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It has to be the most difficult thing in the world to go in and out of character.  Sorta like having to have a multiple personality 'at will' if you ask me.

As for looking 'hot'..............it was many moons ago and well......'hot' was never one of the things I thought I looked like.   As to looking like LMP?   I've had a couple of people tell me that, including my sister Viv.  Thing is.....I don't look like LMP.....she looks like ME...........cuz.......um.....

I'm older!    LOL!

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i think each actor has a different "method" of getting into character and out again. one of the random trivial tidbits floating around in my head (which means it may or may not be accurate) is that nic wore his bandage 24/7 while working on birdy (birdie?). this suggests that as a new actor he had to stay on. as his level of experience has increased, he may be able to turn it on and off more easily, but not totally. a good question for a reporter. and bon, you may have been bored, but looked damn HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyone ever tell you that you bear more than a passing resemblance to lisa marie presley?

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I've read alot of comments about how bored people get while on set and I guess that would happen if you've been around alot of them and have become jaded to the magical aspects of moviemaking.  

But for me, I still think I'd find it entrancing and well worth the moments of inaction just to watch the process of telling a story unfold.  Maybe cuz I've always loved stories?

In High School I was in the Tech Theater Group and when I wasn't building sets, locating props, painting scenery......I could always be found watching the director and the actors working together to find just what it was exactly that they wanted to put across to the audience.  I found it downright fascinating!

Now...what I personally foundtedious was modeling!  I had the opportunity to model in NYC several years back for a friend who was trying to get a woman's magazine off the ground.   The shoot took all day.........and while I was interested in the process because it was a new experience to me.....I could easily see how boring it would be to do day after day after day.  There is a tremendous amount of time wasted just waiting to be called for your shots and I simply wouldn't want to devote my life to waiting around all day just to be primped and posed for pictures.

There is so much more of life out 'there' than photos, if ya know what I mean.

Movies.... at least...... tell a story, make a heart race, cause emotions to be brought to the surface, entertain, heal, teach............whatever. 

It's a worthy 'cause' in my opinion.

And wow.......it's awfully early for me to be going off on such a windbag tangent already.   Oops! 

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Yeah I guess that´s the reason behind the procedure, to allow the artists to carry on their creative process during breaks. But I guess they will miss some proximity now and then...

I don´t think it can compare to cinema, but I once was in the shooting of a commercial and it was all about waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the crew to set up things before filming... must get pretty boring eventually.

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I can so easily see the need to go 'within' when you are trying to stay focused on what a character might be feeling during a certain situation.  It has to be next to impossible to go IN and OUT of character during filming......

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Do you know what I liked the most about this article? The Nice Black Guy´s persistence, LOL!

I´ve read that sometimes Nic keeps to himself on set, to stay focused. Don´t know if it´s procedure or not though. Maybe it depends on the scene. Also read that extras cannot talk to the stars unless addressed first by them. Must it must get lonely, that forced respectful silence...

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This blogger talks about the yesterday on-set (guess during the pizza time)  It's not exactly a NICe blog but it is interesting in that he describes what is going on on-set.   I just wish the guy would decide if he likes Nic or not.

BTW.....I love he description he gives of Nic staying focused......and pacing....

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

http://twunch.blogspot.com/

Another Dispatch from my Life on the Prop List.

nicolas-cage-032709-012__opt.jpgEveryone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.
-Steve Guttenberg
I have been in the presence of Nick Cage. Background for a new Disney movie called "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" shooting in Manhattan and Brooklyn. That's him at the right wearing a wig that looks curiously like Sean Connery's wig in "The Rock." He stars opposite Jay Baruchel who in the scenes I watched acts like a silent film star: big and schmaltzy to drive the point home. In point of fact, the scene I watched was him breaking off a NAMBLA-stic relationship with an older, abusive sorceror (Cage), so perhaps it's not possible to inject Lee Strasberg into the proceedings. The crew had nary a bad thing to say about either of them. And I probed. I delved. "Oh, Nick's great. He's having a great time. He really enjoys Jay's improvisation. He rolls right with it. But he knows all his lines." 2009. People really talk like this in conversation. My fault for digging.

Favorite moment of yesterday: A fifty year old man with whispy white locks and cargo shorts stands in front of the paparrazzi as they shoot the last shot of the film. There is a pizza involved. He waves his arms in front of the bank of photographers who are flowing in and out of the tourists and gawkers.
"Okay, guys! Nick has asked that- excuse me, guys! Please! Nick has asked that nobody take a picture of him chewing or eating anything! There is a pizza in this scene. If you could just do him the courtesy of- anything up to the pizza entering his mouth or after him chewing- but pictures of food in his mouth are strictly off limits. Please. Really. Could you do that? That'd be great."
There was a half-agreement. None of the pix of Nick eating pizza used flash.

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I'm enjoying life now. If I was a plumber and I'd done the most plumbing jobs between 1980 and 1990, everyone would be saying: "What a great plumber" - he says "f**k you to the world and he's enjoying himself." But for some reason, as an actor, you're not allowed to say: "I'm f**king rich, bro."
Steve Guttenberg
There was a diminutive black man on set, not working just hanging out on White Street right in the middle of the set. He was nice, early forties, and by my guess of an intellectual capacity between diminished and street lamp. But he was the kind of person who asked a question and then made enough eye contact afterward to convince you he was genuinely interested in your answer. It made me feel good to talk to him. Nice energy. So nobody kicked him off the set. The scene was in front of a mocked up storefront in Tribeca and there was a vintage Rolls Royce which Cage ate his (un)unphotographed pizza on.
Nice Black Guy: Do you think that's Nicolas Cage's Car?
Me: (Here provides nice, overlong description of how classic cars are leased to films.)
Nice Black Guy: He collects cars. I think it's his.
Suddenly I was called away to walk past the car sixty feet away from the shot. Ten minutes later the Nice Black Guy is back.
Nice Black Guy: I asked him.
Me: What?
Nice Black Guy: I went over to that tent. He was watching a screen. They told me not to go in but I went in. I was like: Nic Cage. And he was totally cool. And I was like: is that your car? And he was like: Absolutely. And I was like: But do you own it? And he was like: Absolutely. So there you go. Asked and answered.
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There are great movies I do on the Hallmark Channel called Single Santa. I've just finished a sequel called Meet The Santas. It's like Meet The Fockers. Mr and Mrs Santa have to come and meet my wife's parents. It's great.
Steve Guttenberg

Between takes, Cage stalks back and forth between the car and the porch, ten feet left to right like a lion. Seriously, prowling. This is a Disney comedy but you get the impression of a linebacker trying to keep the intensity in the fourth quarter of a playoff game. This is a Disney movie. If you are reading this, chances are you will see this movie on an airplane in twenty-four to thirty-six months. Alfred Molina is working on the same set. Between takes he does a crossword while sitting with his wife and petting his dog. But Cage is stalking back and forth muttering to himself.



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