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Friday october 19, 2012
Episode 208 Shoot; Unholy Night
At 7am, after feeding my cats their breakfast, I checked the recorded info-line and learned that as of 3am there had been some calltime changes; my catagory having shifted from 1pm to 2pm, meaning they must have run really super late the night before.
Maybe we could end up with some overtime after all, I suspected.
Living within a healthy walk, I headed over to Paramount Studios, arriving at 1:30pm for my new 2pm calltime.
As I'd already worked the show, the same outfit was waiting for me at wardrobe.
Their catering of sorts had just begun serving hamburgers so I was able to have one, which worked out well as the eventual lunch-break food was such all I had was white rice and soy sauce.
There was set construction work going on in the regular soundstage we used for holding previously, so we had the same conference room at which we'd met for the initial pre-season interview.
It was a bit of a squeeze but some took to that building's lobby soft seats.
Sally
was as pleasant as before, later relating this episode would be titled
Unholy Night
("a very special American Horror Story Christmas episode," as it were...).
While the season one Christmas episode was that season's finale, this was the eighth episode out of the same number of thirteen episodes.
I realized later I'd neglected to ask if she knew the episode's air date
(which I'd eventually learn would be 05 December).
After
Michelle
did my hair, I went into made-up, at which time I noticed
(due to his unmistakable voice),
in the next chair was
Ian McShane.
As
Joseph Fiennes
was in the pilot, it was no surprise to see him, early in the day speaking with me briefly about the lack of beef jerky at Craft Services.
We filmed again in the Common Room until breaking for "lunch" at about ten past 8pm
(Sally sing-songing the word "Grace" a few times as 8 o'clock was about to strike, as we did another take or three to finish a specific set-up).
Considering the steadi-cam shot retaining me just beyond Joseph Fiennes addressing us, I should be rather visible
(as always, depending on the editing).
While my friend
Maria Olsen
was not brought back for this episode, Gary-7 was on hand today, and during the day I befriended
Cathy Fielding
and
Matt Paul Smith.
Just before we'd gone to lunch I found my nearly completely battery-drained phone had one message waiting, confirming I was recalled for Monday.
Then after lunch there was another message that was just able to be retrieved conveying... Not So Much: I was de-recalled.
Turned out Monday's shoot had a drastically reduced number of patients, so it wasn't as though it was Just Me: out of the 28 or so of us, only about four or five were being brought back.
There were rumours that possibly some or more or maybe all of us could be called back for Tuesday.
I figured I'd believe that when I got the call
(it never came, at least not for me).
We shot until about 10:30 or so, then those not being recalled were released.
Sally signed us out at 11:24pm
(still within eight hours),
and Sally actually made it a point to indicate recalling I lived within a mile of the studio: when she asked if I needed parking reiumbursement, just as I went to remind her politely that I was on foot, she beat me to the draw, smiling and pointing at me: "No, 'cause you live so close!"
To my surprise, as I reached the main corner, the next bus was just arriving, getting me back to my place by about 11:15pm.
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