The Penny: One more day of filming (for Brian and me)

Sitting on set, inside. All week has been interior scenes which has
been a woderful contrast to the bitter cold of weeks past. Apparently
in film there is no comfortable temperature... You are either having
your toes fall off from frostbite OR suffering from heat exhaustion.

Since I am trying to avoid spoilers, I will summarize some of the
things I have learned this week... Followed by the dramatic new
chapter in Kyle and brian's "eating healthy and working out plan".

-acting in scenes where you have to eat never ends well. Often you
come out of it with 200% your daily sodium and a string distaste for
whatever your character ate in the scene.

-try to memorize your lines before you start filming the scene.

-no matter what, you should take a nap before your 11pm call.

-I love acting, and I am itching for my next project.

-scenes with two pages of dialogue can be filmed in like half an
hour... "simple" scenes with a hand knocking on a door can take hours.

-if you have a scene where your character is just waking up for the
day, it is totally a good chance to grab some Z's

AND NOW for the next installment of Kyle and Brian's "workout and eat
healthy regime"!
It was the beginning of the end. An end to a beginning. The time was
7am. As others were getting up for their work day... Brian and I were
still on set. Think: zombies in front of cameras... Not filming a
zombie movie.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see Brian sneak around to the back.
Back where the snack table is setup. Now let me give you a better
description of the golden cornucopia that is the snack table: fruits
and candies and coffees and granola bars and homemade desserts that
challenge those of Miss Crocker herself.

I decide to follow Brian (secretly) to see what he could be up to.
Is he making himself a tea? Maybe half an apple? That's when I
witnessed it. Brian had a sloppy joe in one hand and two fudge cookie
brownies in the other.

We had been able to remain strong for so long. But unfortunately when
I saw brian eat those tasty tasty treats... I ate some of them too.
And since then we have been eating treats for meals and skipping
workouts.

My only hope is that we both take away from this something along the
lines of trusting ourselves to eat healthy and not to watch your
friends eat tasty tasty treats.

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5:40 in the morning, still filming

The end of the movie (but not the end of the shoot)

It's roughly 3:30 in the morning, been shooting for hours, hyped up on
multiple types of caffiene, hanging out at the final location.

They have split up the filming of the last scene into three nights
(late nights!) of filming. We have already filmed the beginning,
tonight (this morning) is the end, and Monday will be the middle.

Everyone seems to be in decent spirits and the footage looks great. And
unrelated to acting: a fellow actor named Dan brought us venizen to
eat (shaped like salami).

And while we aren't shooting, we have to sit next to the über-fresh
Krispy Kreme donuts. I like to call it the box of temptation. It is
taking all of my willpower to not eat one (or twelve)

Apparently at three in the morning, all I can blog about is food.

More later,
Kyle

And just a small note from me, Brian, my friend Mr. Mark Cade came in
town to visit and hang out on set - and cool enough they needed
another extra - so he got costumed up and
did it. Just amazing to be working on set with some of my best friends.

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Week Two: Catch-Up

Kyle talking:
Sorry it has been a few days since an actual post. We have been on a surreal shooting schedule all week. Basically shooting from 11pm til 5 or 6 in the morning. When your morning jog happens during sunset, you sort of wonder what the heck is going on.
A couple things that happened this week:

We are keeping hush-hush about stuff we have been filming... so I now talk to you about Brian working out.

the other day, brian and I were doing our shoulder exercises... And , well, quite frankly I have no problem telling the world this: Brian does shoulder presses like Michael Flatley on hot coals. He is the lord of the dance when it comes to working out. In this particular moment as he was raising our water-filled milk jugs over his head, his legs were dancing around like MC hammer at a Christmas party. To brian credit, he was able to do more reps with this technique. And to my credit, I got a good abs workout from laughing at him.

First Official Still

film still from THE PENNY

Kyle Walters and Brian Morvant

There are also two other stills featuring other actors, posted at the filmmaker's blog.

Week 2 begins!

Brian:
'Bout to get started on Week 2 and we're both pretty excited. It's a
10pm start, and we'll be getting right into shooting the first of the
final scenes. Who knows how late we'll go (wanna take bets?) but
we've been off 4 days and have watched ten movies (son of rambow and
reservation road were by far the best) so we're definitely ready to
cure our boredom with some action.

Prolly post some pics later too 'cos we're both so excited about these
final scenes.

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