Pining for my boy

Trust Me

Hollywood is making a little visit to my neck of the woods tomorrow. We were notified that a movie is filming outside my office building, in front of the Union, and in the Law Quad courtyard. After that, they’ll film interior scenes for several days on North campus. I’d love to say it is Hayden’s film, but it isn’t. It’s a Clive Owen movie called Trust. Will I be working that gig? Of course not. I am apparently persona non grata in the film industry.

I considered for fifteen whole seconds taking a temporary leave of absence to work this unpaid internship on Vanishing On 7th Street, but figured they would stick me in some tiny office photocopying script changes. Something far, far away from Hayden. Yeah, as soon as they got a whiff of my fanaticism, I’d be toast.

Of course there have been no opportunities to work as an extra on his film, despite word that my casting agency is involved with the production. But then I realized… it’s a story about how all these people have vanished. Under the circumstances, there wouldn’t be much need for, um, peeps, would there? Unless they use flashbacks. Rooting for lots of flashbacks. In the meantime, I’ll have to soothe my yearnings tomorrow, catching any glimpses of Clive & Company doing their thing. If anything exciting happens, I’ll let you know.

Hey, are all you guys geeked for “V” tonight? I am a little worried about Hayden’s film. If this television show and FlashForward are similar in plot, will people be hyped about Vanishing or will they be like “been there, done that”?

UPDATE: Didn’t see Clive, but I managed to capture a photo of director David Schwimmer (Friends) without knowing it. See article (with better photo) in the University Record.

[03 November 2009]