Hi guys! Sorry I haven't written since Monday, but I was really busy. On Monday, I didn't do much except go to school. As I said in my last post, I met the girl who is playing my sister. When we go to school, we are in a trailer on set. The trailer is about one third of the size of the classroom at our school. There are two desks, one for me to sit at, and one for Julia. I have a pink swivel chair which is really comfy. Our teacher is nice. She mostly has to help Julia because she is younger. We have to go to school for 3 hours everyday, but can go for as long as five hours. The producers asked our teacher to try and keep me in school for five hours on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday because we can "bank" hours so that when we are shooting heavy scenes, I only have to be in school for one hour and they can use two of my banked hours. Its kind of weird I know. It is hard to be on set with so much going on and be in a classroom trailer, but I know it's important and the film takes the school very seriously.
On Tuesday, I had to do camera tests for my wigs. I have about three or four wigs throughout the movie. We do not shoot the movie in order, so they have to make wigs to show how I looked before I got sick. My wigs are brown!!! It's really strange to see. But the director Mark reminded me that I am playing Ryan not Max and Ryan has brown hair. I went from class to the hair trailer to the set and repeated and repeated and repeated. One fun thing that happened is that I got to meet Alfred Molina who is in the movie but not in my scenes. Fred (as he likes to be called) plays Doc Ock in Spiderman in case you don't know him by his name. He is the nicest guy ever. And he's super funny. He spent a lot of time talking to me and giving me pretend advice about being in the film business. Basically he tried to make me into a monster by telling me I should yell at producers and demand nicer trailers. He also told me that if a director gives me a note I should say, 'DON'T YOU EVER TALK TO ME LIKE THAT AGAIN!" I would never do that! He was only joking.
On Wednesday, I went to a museum with Julia and our tutor. We went to the Royal Ontario Museum which was AMAZING!!! There were displays of real dinosaurs. Many more than the field museum has. And there was also an awesome display about Pompeii. We were there for 6 hours!!! I spent most of my time in the Paleontology section.
Thursday I shot two scenes. It took about 7 hours! I was on location shooting until very late!! They had to release me eventually because it's against the rules to work a kid past a certain hour. I had to leave after my close up but Gerry still had his close up to shoot. I felt bad not being there for his reaction, but I know he's a professional. It is an interesting that we were shooting scenes in a car and we were supposed to be looking at buildings in CHICAGO!!! When the film comes out it will be fun to know that we are actually looking at the BMO Harris bank of Montreal building and not the Wrigley Building like we say in the scene. I also got to shoot with my film mom. Her name is Gretchen Mol and she is so sweet. She brought me Maple sugar candy and maple sugar butter. She lives in New York and has two kids so she misses her family too.
Today will be another long day as I shoot more scenes with Gerry and I also go to school! It will be a long day but then I get to go home for Halloween!!!!
Hope you all are doing great! See you on Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
