I was booked on a WallMart
/Coca Cola 
commercial for two days. The holding area was downtown area by Chambers Street.
We got to the holding area for our call time at noon and shortly after we had this terrific spread of food being laid out for lunch.
/Coca Cola 
commercial for two days. The holding area was downtown area by Chambers Street.
We got to the holding area for our call time at noon and shortly after we had this terrific spread of food being laid out for lunch. I love it when they, the casting people tell us to eat Lunch before we get to set.
I of course never listen to the casting directions and came to set famished. Once you have dealt with the casting information, you know it’s all about “trickery” and lies and you have to do what is best for you to make your own judgment call. Most of the time they have NO clue what is really going. Luckily I did as shortly after we signed in and got our paper work, we sat around for about an hour then lunch got served.
The first day they barely used us and we spent most of the day hanging out in a park for over 5 hours. I guess it wasn’t bad hanging out in the park and watching “Thomas Adonis” here posing
with "Libido Linda" strut his stuff. The guy many be a complete moron, though he is a stud! When you are bored, you definitely need something to amuse you. It was boring though much better than to be held hostage on set which was indoors in this loft with no working AC units. We escaped the "sweat fest" of the loft on day one, though we sure made up for it the next day.
Our call time was much earlier the next day and we had lunch several hours later. After a very satisfying lunch, they hauled us up to this loft where we had to climb 5 long sets of stairs to get to the top floor.
Guess that was good planning on their part to feed us then get us to burn all those calories by making us walk up all those flights of stairs. The loft was decorated with white Christmas lights
and ornaments. Yes, you guessed it, this commercial is to be released for the Christmas season. It's actually a commercial which will be viewed across the nation at movie theaters everywhere during the preview ads and trailers we get bombarded with prior to the feature presentation.
and ornaments. Yes, you guessed it, this commercial is to be released for the Christmas season. It's actually a commercial which will be viewed across the nation at movie theaters everywhere during the preview ads and trailers we get bombarded with prior to the feature presentation. 
I'm sure you won't be seeing me in this commercial. Being on this commercial gave the term "back to one" an entire new meaning. Normally they shoot the same scene, a hundred times over and then "check the gate, then move on. Not in this case at all. It was the exact same scene for 14 hours! I'm not kidding.
The scene as I mentioned is taking place in this loft where this young kid about 19 years old starts singing about how happy he is it's Christmas time, grabs a Wall mart bag filled with Coca 
cola, and starts passing around coke bottles to his "Step family" and his "Cool" Step Mother, singing and spreading Christmas cheer as he skips along the entire loft to the end until he abruptly comes to a halt when he sees his ex-girlfriend is at the party with a new guy! How clever.
cola, and starts passing around coke bottles to his "Step family" and his "Cool" Step Mother, singing and spreading Christmas cheer as he skips along the entire loft to the end until he abruptly comes to a halt when he sees his ex-girlfriend is at the party with a new guy! How clever. That stupid song he sang over and over again. Well actually he "lip-synced" it as he skipped along. Though as the sweaty night prevailed and we were about to collapse, the director turned up the volume of the song so that everyone would get into the mood whether they liked it or not.
It was getting so bad in that loft that the icing on the cupcakes as props on the table was melting. 
Even the cheese couldn't take it anymore as it was seriously melting and becoming slimy. I think this was the cheese they brought up from Krafty when it was still edible.
Even the cheese couldn't take it anymore as it was seriously melting and becoming slimy. I think this was the cheese they brought up from Krafty when it was still edible. As for everyone else it was getting so hot that when we made an attempt to take off our jackets in between takes, it was impossible as our jackets and sweaters became glued to our skin, literally. Finally after a million takes of this "party scene", we ready to collapse and barely filtered down the flights of stairs back to holding to sign out.
I was never SO happy in all my life to get on the subway knowing that it would be freezing cold with the AC pumping! So I survived that though I couldn't sleep all night as I was having nightmares of that stupid song. Though the downside, I suppose is that I won't be seeing any Christmas movies at the theater. or at least come extra late to avoid seeing this and the sweaty memories of it!
CA :( Sigh!
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