I'm in "The Feast of Love"... as a Movie Extra...

As if you thought I'd become a pimp or something and you are thinking, "No way in hell," you would be correct. However, yesterday, I had the opportunity and privilege to be in a few of the shoots and one out of the few 300 hundred backround extras in the upcoming movie, "The Feast of Love."

I heard about this opportunity from one of the production guys that got his car fixed at my father's shop. He had been a repeat customer of my dad's and he knew that Danny (that was his name) had been doing a lot in commercial shoots... Well, this time, Danny had moved up to this "Feast of Love" movie that has stars of Morgan Freeman (who unfortunately MIA yesterday), Selma Blair, and Greg Kinnear (who is quite the stunt driver, read below to find out) to name a few. Danny was in charge of finding extras so by chance, I got to meet him and get a spot as an extra.

Got up at about 4:50am and ended driving about 30 mins to Reed College where the shoot was being held. In the extras' roles, which was compressed with many college students, we are leaving a football game. Some of us are happy that we won (me) and some are bummed out from losing. As we are making our way back to our cars/shuttle buses, somebody playing recreational football, gets a hard attack or some heart failure. They, then rush an old piece of crap Volvo in (I said it was symbolic for a Hurst, the vechicle that usually caries the dead in a casket) and storms off. Greg Kinnear is driving the car, and I am surprised this guy isn't competing against Jeff Gordon or Dale Earnhardt Jr!! Kinnear pushes the Volvo, like a rocket into the streets not before almost hitting some of the students. I had jokingly requested to be almost be run-over by the car to the poeple next, but as faith had it, I was near the front of the line when the Volvo came a-charging!! The first take, I was in the front of the line, and I feel hard on my ass trying to back-peddle and the guy behind me grabbed me as a kept a very good paniced look on my face. Unfortunately, there was only one camera moving around at the time and I believed they missed me and only got the car shoot. I got moved back to the 3rd row after that so I don't know how well that turned out. This was definitely the highlight of the shoot and I'll have to buy a ticket sometime when this movie comes out in 2007 to see if I made the cut...