Hey lovelies! People really dug my entry about Playstation and behind-the-scenes goodies from there, so I’m starting a new blog series about some of my gigs where I don’t sign an NDA 
Recently, I was on set for a CA Academy of Sciences commercial that’ll air in the fall. The California Academy of Sciences is this beautiful science museum, self-described as “the only place on the planet with an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum, and a 4-story rainforest all under one roof.”
It was the first time I had ever been to this museum and WOW, it was absolutely lovely and nice to not be in front of a greenscreen mimicing amazement when I could be actually showing it.
I was part of a young couple (the guy is pictured in the this crazy picture from the Academy’s Extreme Mammals exhibit).
There were also fake grandparents, grandkids, fake mother and daughter etc (all the fake awesome family-ness you could want in a set!)
We ended up making crazy faces in front of the Gorilla exhibit (similar to our audition, which reminded me of the “Dance, Monkey, Dance” sequence in Zoolander) and we also did a frolic through some of the stuffed animal exhibits as a very adorable fake couple.
We were also lucky enough to be styled by one of the stylists for America’s Next Top Model! He was generous enough to snap this quick picture with me too. He put me in this hilariously puffy black tutu with bright purple leggings and the top and necklace above.
Just an average day visiting the museum. I was completely amused!
All-in-all, a really fun shoot where we watched Disney and Pixar movies in the breaktime and hung out and joked during the off-time. It’s interesting to be back on set as an actor after producing/writing for long periods of time. It’s certainly different!
So I was on the set of Moneyball yesterday. Amid hundreds of screaming Brad Pitt fans, I seemed to be the lone person who was really excited to be in the presense of Director Bennett Miller (Capote) and a whole host of other awesome people running crew.
I was sitting in the area directly behind the scene for the day (as one of the home plate fans). Pretty neat as we were right behind the plate in an exciting way! Before even getting on set, I made sure to look up who would possibly be there (from main cast to main crew). The cast that day included Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman (le sigh) and a few other stars I didn’t recognize off the top of my head. Image courtesy of Buzz Sugar.
Here’s some of the power players: Bennett Miller – Director (Capote), Michael De Luca – Producer (The Social Network), Rachael Horovitz- Producer (About Schmidt), Wally Pfister – Cinematographer (Inception!).
Knowing this, I spotted Bennett sitting by himself while everyone freaked out over being within 50 feet of Brad Pitt. I made sure to go over and say hello and tell them that I loved Capote. He was geniunely suprised (not that many people recognize or appreciate him on set, I assume) and said Thank You.
It was just really wonderful to be able to comment (in a not-annoying way) someone that I consider to be making genuinely great work. I also sat there and thought, someday I’ll have a similar set to this, filled with hundreds of screaming fans who are all hoping to get their chance to see a star. I’ll be sitting in the Producer’s chair seeing the beauty of film being created. And I’ll smile.
Hey guys and gals!
Instead of my normal post catching you up on some of my stuff I thought I’d try out a video blog post – pretty low-key & just off of my MacBook Pro
And just because I rediscovered this hilarious video I did years ago for Rihanna’s “Disturbia” – here ya go!