(originally from August 18, 2008)
Well it’s about time I got booked on something from the fabulous "British Booker", Jane Blodwell since I signed on to her agency over a month ago. I got my information for this Sprint
commercial and I was told that this would be a short shoot and would wrap no later than noon. Well surprise surprise that we ended after 3pm!
Our holding area was a camper parked outside a block away from Grand Central, so you suspect it not to be a long shoot. There were only a handful of extras on this shoot including my friend Kathy from Seacliff, Long Island, and Stewart.
The location to shoot was at Grand Central Station which you know is and always will be a mess to work there in terms of high traffic commuters. Shooting anything at Grand Central attracts spectators and curious people that snoop around to see what is shooting and what celebrity is involved.
Well when people found out that Julia Roberts wasn’t there and the only star was the CEO of
Sprint, people slowly moved along. The fact being that the CEO of Sprint, who is not only the spokesperson, but also the star of this commercial, was a joke. It was also not in our favor of getting released by noon. This commercial experience was a lesson learned why actors are hired to do commercials. The CEO kept messing up his lines and many of us believed that he got the script in a late e-mail the night before.
It got so bad to the point that both of the PA’s had to write down the script in BIG letters with magic marker on big cards for him to read as he walked and tried to pitch key words and phrases on his own company.
During all this all we had to do was walk back and forth as commuters around him. This may sound easy enough though we had one crazy old man with a horn in a powered wheel chair
attempting to mow some of us down and making vile attempts at slapping young girls butts. Pervert in a wheelchair basically.
We were eventually done by 3pm where at that point we were making $5 dollars an hour for the rate we were promised and the commission Jane. Though isn’t it worth it?? I ask you?
Well it’s about time I got booked on something from the fabulous "British Booker", Jane Blodwell since I signed on to her agency over a month ago. I got my information for this Sprint
commercial and I was told that this would be a short shoot and would wrap no later than noon. Well surprise surprise that we ended after 3pm!Our holding area was a camper parked outside a block away from Grand Central, so you suspect it not to be a long shoot. There were only a handful of extras on this shoot including my friend Kathy from Seacliff, Long Island, and Stewart.
The location to shoot was at Grand Central Station which you know is and always will be a mess to work there in terms of high traffic commuters. Shooting anything at Grand Central attracts spectators and curious people that snoop around to see what is shooting and what celebrity is involved.
Well when people found out that Julia Roberts wasn’t there and the only star was the CEO of
Sprint, people slowly moved along. The fact being that the CEO of Sprint, who is not only the spokesperson, but also the star of this commercial, was a joke. It was also not in our favor of getting released by noon. This commercial experience was a lesson learned why actors are hired to do commercials. The CEO kept messing up his lines and many of us believed that he got the script in a late e-mail the night before.It got so bad to the point that both of the PA’s had to write down the script in BIG letters with magic marker on big cards for him to read as he walked and tried to pitch key words and phrases on his own company.
During all this all we had to do was walk back and forth as commuters around him. This may sound easy enough though we had one crazy old man with a horn in a powered wheel chair
attempting to mow some of us down and making vile attempts at slapping young girls butts. Pervert in a wheelchair basically.We were eventually done by 3pm where at that point we were making $5 dollars an hour for the rate we were promised and the commission Jane. Though isn’t it worth it?? I ask you?
CA ;(
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