21 Jump Street
(video from YouTube)
This is the first movie that I ever got hired to be part of.
I sent in my application just for the fun of it;
I really thought that I wouldn't get it.
Like they would call me and say
"Thanks but no thanks."
I didn't think I had "the look" to be in movies;
I mean, I am no stunning beauty.
My nose is too big and my smile is AWFUL!!
So I was like,
"They will never hire me."
Boy, was I wrong.
They called me back in about three hours and said,
"We would like to hire you of two days as a high school student.
Are you still interested in working for this movie?"
I was shocked.
But I was like, "HELL YES!"
Of course, I had to call both my parents at work!
No one in my family had ever done anything like this before;
they were stoked!
(This came a at time of my life when I really needed something;
my grandmother, who everyone says I look like, had just passed away
from pancreatic cancer. And I was going through rough time.
I was very close to her. And I wanted nothing more than to call her with the news.
But I knew that she had arranged this for me, wherever she is;
I know she is still with me and she is guiding me.)
My parents decided that I shouldn't be driving to New Orleans
each morning of the shoot (they have since changed their minds),
so they decided to get a hotel room for my mom and me while I worked
just outside of New Orleans.
That made the commute much easier.
Driving to New Orleans form my home in the morning is a kind of a pain in my butt!
(I now do the drive for other movies.. the worse being a 5:30 am call time about 2 and a half hours away from home!)
It sucks sometimes.
The call times, I mean.
(For those of you who don't know what a "call time" is..
It is the time that an actor or actress has to be on set and checked in.)
Usually mine are about 5 am or so..
But for my first movie, they were around 7 or 7:30 am.
When you first get to set,
they cross your name off the list and hand you a stack of paper work.
It is about three or four pages of stuff you have to fill out so you can get paid.
They also feed you "breakfast".
(I put it in quotations because it is the "breakfast" is sometimes questionable.)
Hair, make-up, and wardrobe.
Hair and makeup were a breeze.
The make-up lady said I looked fine;
the hair guy just pinned up my curls and made them look better.
(My hair was really long back then.. it's really short now.)
Wardrobe wasn't bad either.
They just put me in a small tank top.
I wear a large tank top.
I DO HAVE BOOBS.
We didn't get to film all day.
We played coke pong using cups from breakfast.
We also played some other games.
WE STIIL GOT PAID!!
The next day was about the same.
We had a wardrobe change.
And I got to film.
I didn't film for very long;
maybe ten minutes.
And it wasn't with Channing Tatum or Jonah Hill..
It was with Rob Riggle (I believe).
He plays a coach in the movie and is watching a production of
Peter Pan in the scene I was in
He yelled a bunch of "bad words" and threw chips everywhere,
including in my hair.
But that was the end of it.
Very short time filming on that movie.
(Things have changed since then.. I film all day when I go on set now!)
They took us back to holding and told us to change back into our first changes.
I pulled on the tank that they gave me to wear..
AND...
RIP!!!!!!
The lace on the top of the tank ripped.
That's what they get for trying to put my boobs in a small shirt!!!
Haha.
Oh... There was also this guy who had like a HUGE CRUSH ON ME...
He followed me around for almost two days until I told him
(as nice as I could by that point)
TO LEAVE ME THE F***K ALONE!!!
But that is another story.
Peace and Love.
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