What an adventure it was. Never have I jumped out of bed so quickly at 5am! I came home with the most wonderful feeling of exhaustion I had ever had.  I was tired, sore, dirty, sticky and hot. But I loved every minute of it.

It was so amazing to be on the set of a real movie.  Just to see how things were being done.  It was much more informative than any documentary or behind the scenes DVD extra I have watched. Filled with surreal moments after being in theatre for 23 years that made me notice even more the difference between life theatre and film.

I met and spoke briefly with Martin Starr and Jesse Eisenberg.  They were both nice and friendly but sadly neither they or the director Greg Mottola (equally nice and friendly) saw me and said “WE MUST HAVE YOU NOW IN THIS FILM AND MANY OTHERS!” Of course, with my 80s gear and make-up I looked pretty damn scary in my opinion. And I ended up with blisters on the back of my heels thanks to the damn jelly shoes I had on. I remembered quickly why I hated these vile, plastic, creations as a kid and hate them equally as much if not more now.

The down points were the hot lunch consisted of mystery chicken, soggy three veg medley, dry rice and nasty cake (which I skipped for diet reasons) and the snacks we got were miniature, chilled, candies. While everyone else got salmon, mashed potatoes, fresh fruit and pretzels throughout the day and bottled water, while we had a Gatorade jug.   But I didn’t let that get me down because the 13 hours (for which I will get about $90 before tax) I spent there were just amazing. It was so cool to be standing there thinking that I was on a real movie set, something I have wanted to do since I was 8 years old. The start to a dream coming true (fingers crossed).

I won’t be going back though as were none of the Extras from yesterday as they are wanting to have a variety of people at the park which makes sense.  But I did get to know one of the girls at the casting agency a bit (totally by accident) and she remembers my name, so that is a good thing.

Hopefully when the film comes out, in 2009 (according to IMDB) we will see more than my elbow or the back of head!

My head is still swimming over everything that happened. So I won’t try to explain more right now as it will come out as a rush of vocabulary that an excited teenager would use and make no sense whatsoever.

For now IT SO ROCKED!