As you may or may not know, I cast extras for commercials to pay my bills. It's not sexy, it's not glamorous, but it affords me the ability to conceive and raise a child at the age of 48. Anywho, I was casting a Sharp commercial 5/19, and I got an e-mail from production saying we need an 8 month old baby. I said "HOLD THE PHONE!
I have an 8 month old baby." So they book Logan as an extra on the commercial. We arrive to set at 9 AM, I go to breakfast, I look up, and DJ and the boy are nowhere to be seen. I gobble down my egg white veggie omelet, and run to set in time to see DJ handing Logan off to some guy who looked like the crazed killer monk in the DaVinci code. And then they point the camera right at my boy and the man, he says his lines (the killer monk, not Logan), the director says "now with the dummy in his mouth" (pacifyers being called 'dummies' in the UK).Dummy in, dummy out, left arm, right arm, say the line. And all the while, DJ and I are on each side of the camera waving making faces, shaking Elmo in the air. And he smiled, he looked around, he grinned, he did great. One shot has the make-up girl putting his pacie in his mouth, 'cause big stars don't put their own pacie in their own mouth EVER! You can see the director in a couple of the shots (he's the gentleman in the porkpie hat). Very, very special day that I get to share with you.
As you may or may not know, I cast extras for commercials to pay my bills. It's not sexy, it's not glamorous, but it affords me the ability to conceive and raise a child at the age of 48. Anywho, I was casting a Sharp commercial 5/19, and I got an e-mail from production saying we need an 8 month old baby. I said "HOLD THE PHONE! I have an 8 month old baby." So they book Logan as an extra on the commercial. We arrive to set at 9 AM, I go to breakfast, I look up, and DJ and the boy are nowhere to be seen. I gobble down my egg white veggie omelet, and run to set in time to see DJ handing Logan off to some guy who looked like the crazed killer monk in the DaVinci code. And then they point the camera right at my boy and the man, he says his lines (the killer monk, not Logan), the director says "now with the dummy in his mouth" (pacifyers being called 'dummies' in the UK).Dummy in, dummy out, left arm, right arm, say the line. And all the while, DJ and I are on each side of the camera waving making faces, shaking Elmo in the air. And he smiled, he looked around, he grinned, he did great. One shot has the make-up girl putting his pacie in his mouth, 'cause big stars don't put their own pacie in their own mouth EVER! You can see the director in a couple of the shots (he's the gentleman in the porkpie hat). Very, very special day that I get to share with you.
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