Diary of a Friday Night Lights extra part Duex

Diary of a Friday Night Lights Extra part Duex orginally posted on Myspace Sept 7, 07


So I woke up at 4am... yes, 4 in the freakin' AM! I got ready at home and made the nice scenic drive up to Austin. Call time was at 7:30am and I made it with like 20mins to spare. We wait around a bit and they serve us breakfast. The actor that plays Buddy Garrity (the head cheerleaders dad) was eating breakfast with us in the tent. Little after that the wardrobe girl comes around to see what clothes we brought and to approve our outfit. She ends up liking the blue shirt I was wearing so I didn't have to change in the make shift changing tent with 2 inch cracks that you can see right through. Win, win.

So once everyone is changed and ready we wait for the guys in charge to split us up in our scenes. I'm in the second group, which was pretty much everybody and we get in van and taken to set. It was a Chevrolet dealership turned into Buddy Garrity Motors. THe scene we were filming was set-up for the Hog Day Sale and the guys let us know that there's going to be about 5 real pigs on set. Sure enough we saw... (smelled) the pigs. The scene called for one of the new football players to wrestle the pig. Of course they had an animal watcher lady on set to tell us when to stop filming so that the pig doesn't get tired. haha, i want to be that lady. Imagine, hey what do you do for a living? Oh, I make sure that pigs on movie sets don't get tired while filming. awesome!

Ok i'm losing you, sorry. So we're at the set and see all the actors, folks let me just say Kyle Chandler (lead, plays the coach) is a Hottie McDottie. Ladies, one look in those eyes... swoon. Haha. Anywho, so the guys split us all up in our areas. I'm standing with this other lady by some picnic tables and they start setting up the scene. I notice that the camera is kinda pointing in our direction, but I don't say anything. Then the guy in charge of us, I forgot his name sorry guy but he was cool, tell us that when we start the scene they're going to focus on us then focus on the action behind us. Our action was to talk to each other then walk to the table and pick up plate of food and then walk passed the coach and to another picnic table. Awesome! We definetly got some camera time there.

We do that a few times then we go on to the next scene, which was the actual hog wrestling. The (hot) actor that plays the new "tight end" on the show had to jump the gate and wrestle the pig. So the guy in charge of us extras tells the lady and I to go from the back where we standing to the front when they realease the pigs, and not only do we have to go to the front we go to the gate and watch from there. And what do I see them setting up right in front of us, yup.. the camera. So they said action and we walked up and watch this hotty sweaty guy wrestle a pig and I acted my heart out like I was a huge fan of Hog Wrestling. So we do this scene quite a few times then we got to do one with no sound, yea I got to put my pantamiming skills to the test. I think I found my next calling, Miming. lol.

So what would a fun day on a set be without making a fool of myself... a wasted day that's what it would be. So I'm standing off to the side waiting to do the hog wrestling scene, did I mention I'm just standing and not moving at all? Yes, so i'm standing i'm hold my plate that consists of a hotdog (hotdogs at Hog wrestling.. hrmm?) and some porkgrinds (porkgrinds at Hog wrestling, too much pork for one day) next thing you know, i just drop my plate. And I could of gotten away with it but of course in embarrassment I yell, MAN DOWN! The group next to me claps and so I bow to the audience, the guys in charge of us screams out, FIVE SECOND RULE!!! So I pretend to eat the very stale, covered in dirt, hotdog and I hear some ladies gasp so I said I'm just kidding and pick up my porkgrinds off the floor in embarrassment. I swear I'm a Clutz-a-saurus Rex.

They wrapped us early like around 12:30. I guess after my incident with the hotdog and the pavement, I got peoples attention cause when I was leaving a lot of people were telling me bye and would smile when they saw me. So I guess I did something right. I may of had my zipper down but I don't know. haha. I was gonna go to the next filming at 1pm but I wasn't booked for it and I didn't want to just show up and they turn me away. That would of been embarrassment numero dos and I was hella sleepy so I just turned around and drove home.

El fin. I'll write more when I get more work! lol.