I first e-mailed C and G casting and said that I am a HUGE METS fan. A little white lie, as I am a Mets fan, though not a "die-hard" fan for sure. I also do not even own one single thread of Mets clothing. Of course you e-mail them and say you have all these things just to get booked.
After not initially hearing a reply, I took the chance to call them up. Normally these casting people hate for you to call them, though I took the risk, and it paid because I did get booked on it. The call time was for 10:30 pm. This was perfect because it gave me enough time to get a Mets shirt and cap from my friend.
I went to the local pub in Astori, the Sunswick pub, had a few beers, because ballpark prices are outrageous, and I hit the "7" train at 10pm. It took only 20 minutes to get there. As soon as I got off the subway and started walking towards the stadium, throngs of people were leaving the stadium as the game let out. The Mets won! Yippee!
So I try to get through these people and make it all the way aroun the side of the stadium and followed the arrows that pointed to holding. I get in, check my ID and get signed in. I even got an official Ugly Betty "crew" tag to wear(which I never returned heheheheh)
The room or area should I say was very dark, cement floors, probably an area used normally for shipping or loading in equipment. The room was already packed and any table and seats were limited. This was one of those sets where they had "Sagre-gation" and lableled the tables as such.
Of course I went directly to the SAG table. I figure why not? I am SAG eligible now, so I may as well start acting the part. I sat down, got my pay pay voucher, filled it out and then proceeded to the feast that was waiting and calling me with the sweet aromas of SAG food! Ah how sweet it is.
There was a line of buffet style catering which included ballpark food Alla gourmet style! There were franks probably Kosher Hebrew National brand, hamburgers with slices of Mozzarella cheese melted to perfection on top, roasted corn on the cob halves and these really great sandwiches on Onion bread stuffed with provolone cheese, Genoa salami and loaded with prosciutto!Yes thank-you ABC for providing great food!
At the end of this array of food was the desert stand which had a couple of cheesecakes, cookies and these wonderfully delightful "hypnotic" cupcakes! They were a standard chocolate cupcake though it was gorgeously decorated with blue and orange swirls in a spiral pattern. They were simply too pretty to just chomp down and eat them, so we played and amused ourselves with them. My friend, Linda really made the best poses with them!
In fact Linda takes such great photos and she is a real trooper considering she is a die-hard Yankee fan having a gig at "Shitti-Fields" as she phrased it! It was So much fun as she had tattoos of the Yankees on her backside and displaying it to the Mets players.
Finally after we consumed the food and I pilfered some of those amazing onion sandwiches for later, the bull horn went off and we were all summoned to set! We went through "the tunnel" which is basically an underpass, cement-laden walk through to get to the ballpark. Before we could get to our seats, we were stopped by the props department to acquire some Mets paraphernalia.
I always try to avoid getting props, as my cohort, Linda does to, though this was unavoidable. We got stopped. I got the green light as I had on my Mets cap and t-shirt on. Though Linda got stopped and was given a plush Mets doll! At first it was like, "Oh great, now you have to hand in your voucher just to hold this thing"!
In order to make a bad situation work to our benefit, we decided to have fun with this prop, and believe me, we did. I don't think Mr. Mets knew what was coming to him and how we violated the poor plush toy. I don't think I even need to explain any further, the following pics illustrates the shoot at Citi Fields:
Did we have fun. What do you think!?
Back to One..or for Mr. Mets guy.."Back for more!"
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