A Wrap for Most
I promised myself I’d get enough sleep tonight, but I’ve just got home and am feeling just the combination of wakefulness, the nostalgia of the season, guilt for not having kept up with this silly blog and excitement for the bittersweet milemarker of an actor’s wrap, that I’ve finally gotten around to posting something new.
The good news is that last Monday, the 5th of October, marked the final scene involving actors to be shot principally. Yes, there are pick ups and b roll things to be addressed, and still much work to do. But as far as full crews (or as full as my crews ever get), scheduling, rehearsing, properties, location hunting and the like, that, my friends, is a wrap.
Our final scene was on the rooftop of my dear friends Kate & Mark’s apartment. Fittingly, as wall-scribed portents and serendipitous turns have been the Pink Hotel’s stock in trade for the duration, it was discovered when we got to the location that our lead actress, Stephanie Wyatt’s name was still on her former mailbox in that very building. of course I had no idea she’d ever been anywhere near the building, but not only had she lived there, but lived in the VERY apartment Kate and Mark now inhabit. Furthermore! She had sworn aloud only DAYS before the shoot that she would never again enter that building, and would rather it burned to the ground.
No such luck, dear Stephanie. The Pink Hotel seems to have had its own plan since the word go, and there hasn’t been any getting around it.
Nor should there have been!
So a chilly, early morning shoot wrapped us up happily before work on Monday.
Next up! A few pick up shots at the gorgeous, historic and, yes, haunted Willowbrook Ballroom on Monday. And! Very excited to report that Chicago’s own blindingly lovely Ambidextrous Acrobats will be lending their talents to our modest movie’s circus dreams later in the week. I feel like I should stress this: these women are incredible, and it’s terribly exciting that they’ve deigned to grace the picture with their talents. After that, the only thing left to shoot is the wonderful zeppelin model being constructed by the skilled hands of the inimitable Ms. Erin Foley.
So much finished, so much to look forward to. Things roll along.
I hope you’re all enjoying the chilliness. I am.
Your pal,
Chris Hefner
