I really don't want to be a movie star
Jun. 12th, 2007 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanLast night, after a long difficult day filled with the kind of back-and-forth meetings I thought I'd left behind (although this time I was on a vastly different side of them!), I walked downtown to meet C. for dinner. A lovely day for strolling, sitting outside on the patio of Temple Grill, and watching the long, long, LONG line of people queing up across the street for the Indiana Jones 4 cattle call.
And you know what? Despite my abiding love for those films (okay, for two of them), and my yet-abiding-if-somewhat battered love for Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg*? I had no desire whatsoever to get on that line.
And it wasn't simply that I'm already in an industry where I get rejected on a fairly regular basis, so why would I want to add more? No, I really, truly, honestly have no desire whatsoever to get in front of a movie camera. My ego, although active, does not dance that way.
(mind you, if I'm in town when they film, I might wander by, because even if it's (as I suspect) second unit, I have a great deal of respect for those guys and the job they do and it might be fun to watch. At a distance)
For those of you who are thinking "damn, I'd have done it!" I'll just let you know that the line started forming the night before for a 1pm call (they actually started early, after seeing how many people arrived), and was going on through today. Good luck...
*GeorgeL gets no love.
And you know what? Despite my abiding love for those films (okay, for two of them), and my yet-abiding-if-somewhat battered love for Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg*? I had no desire whatsoever to get on that line.
And it wasn't simply that I'm already in an industry where I get rejected on a fairly regular basis, so why would I want to add more? No, I really, truly, honestly have no desire whatsoever to get in front of a movie camera. My ego, although active, does not dance that way.
(mind you, if I'm in town when they film, I might wander by, because even if it's (as I suspect) second unit, I have a great deal of respect for those guys and the job they do and it might be fun to watch. At a distance)
For those of you who are thinking "damn, I'd have done it!" I'll just let you know that the line started forming the night before for a 1pm call (they actually started early, after seeing how many people arrived), and was going on through today. Good luck...
*GeorgeL gets no love.
