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Cake day: June 13th, 2025

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  • I camped overnight for The Phantom Menace tickets. We were not allowed in theater property until 6am release day, but we were allowed on the sidewalk loading up to their property at 6pm the day before release.

    When they let us move up to the door we figured someone would walk over to us and lead us to the door… nope the manager stood at the doors and yelled across the parking lot and beckoned us. It turned into a mad dash.

    The sidewalk turned and went up a hill, those of us nearer the end of the line were closer to the entrance than the front of the line. We just ran down the steep hill and moved way up in the queue. I was wearing a kilt, I felt like Mel Gibson in Braveheart as I ran towards the door.

    The people that had been near the front were complaining we cheated, but they were the ones that started running first. If they had walked up nice and orderly like we learned in kindergarten they would still have been first.

    Anyways, I saw TPM 9 times in the first 48 hours.









  • The trailer near set, at base camp if you are doing location shooting, or on the lot if you are doing studio shooting, is not where the person is living, it is essentially their office while at work. Talent needs access to a shower, space to change, an area to eat, run lines, and unwind. They likely also have a hotel room where they are living for the duration of the shoot.

    My experience with the industry is Tamalewood (Albuquerque and Santa Fe) and all location shooting, meaning we go to a location to shoot, rather than have a set on a sound stage in a studio.

    A typical day is 12 hours, and an actor may have a long break between scenes. Long enough they need/want to be alone but not long enough to go back to their hotel. I worked on one project that was shot on a working ranch. We had to limit road traffic so it would not interfere with indoor daily operations, so running the 50 minutes back to Santa Fe was not an option, plus that 100 minutes of travel could be spent in their trailer.

    And while we have a hair and makeup trailer, some actors will want to have theirs done in their own trailer, be it privacy, or to run lines, etc.

    Sometimes base camp is a bit far from set, and shuttling talent back and forth can cause delays, in those cases we try and have a holding area for talent, with another for background.