Remember pulling all nighters in college? That's waht this week-end has in store for Willy and I. We went to the set at 3:30 yesterday afternoon and didn't wrap until 3 am which meant we were home at 4 am! I'm not a great daytime sleeper, but fortuantely Willy is! At least I don't have to look good when I go there and I can sneak off and take a nap in my car periodically!
They are filming the actual wedding and reception scenes this week-end, thus it is all at night. The tent for the reception actually turned out quite nice. There is alot of pink! The flowers were gorgeous, done by Gerych's, and there were beautiful chandeliers brought in. The video presentation was pretty funny. They used a few pictures of Willy in it. One is from his PRE-K 4 graduation at Detroit Country Day. His cheeks are all puffed out and he has on his graduation cap! As a movie watcher, you probably won't see much of the slides, but there are some cute ones. The art director was telling me last night that she usually has a hard time getting actors to send in personal photos, but that she had gotten stacks of original photos from Ellen, Demi and Kate. I probably sent in a dozen of Willy electronically.
There were tons of extras there last night and they all have to get there earlier than the principals so by the time I get there with Willy I have to park about two miles away! Since I go back and forth to my car periodically, I'm at least getting some exercise.
I started questioning the PA around 1 am as to when Willy would be able to wrap and he couldn't give me an answer. Willy was required to just sit at his table at the reception for the majority of the night. Then in the last scene, at 2:30am, they took the teen cast members outside and shot a scene under a tree where once again, they are talking about "hot bitches" and getting laid. Lots of f-bombs were falling. The kids were so tired by this point though that as they were ad-libbing a couple of them starting calling the other characters by their real name instead of their character's name. Willy got all the names right but I could tell he was getting tired. He crashed the minute we got in the car and slept all the way home.
I didn't even have a chance to tell him he got his first paycheck yesterday. And yes Rita, I will make a copy of it so he can frame his first ever paycheck! Oh, and the bit of excitement for the day was that Ashton Kutcher was there along with Rumer Willis to watch Demi's scenes last night. He's tall which I thought was encouraging for Willy to see! He's worried he'll get too tall to be an actor! It's disheartening to see all these beautiful young people who smoke! Rumer lit up right next to me last night, and I thought "but, you're just a little girl"! I don't know how old she is, but she's much prettier in person than when I saw her in "The House Bunny". I think she's taller than her mom, but they are both petite.
This week's filming schedule is a rough one and I think it's going to set Willy back in terms of his school work. He tried to take a quiz on set last night, but could only get through 2 parts of it. And I can't expect him to study or take tests at 2 am. He's delirious by then.
Next week, I think he goes back to day time shooting, but that's hard to adjust to as well, when you've been staying up all night and sleeping during the day! My goal is to just try and keep him healthy through this. The main producers on this movie are three very accomplished and beautiful women. I was reading up on their work today and was quite impressed with all of them.
Till next time!
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