Boo had more filming yesterday. A few of us moms snuck out onto the set, behind a high school somewhere near Chadds Ford. At one point, we stood maybe 12 feet away from Peter Jackson.
Which was kinda cool, except he's a short, rumply, disheveled sort of guy. He looked like he'd been out all night drinking sometime during 1976, fell asleep in his clothes, and woke up from a time warp to direct the movie.
Moviemaking is very slowgoing and tedious. At one point, one of the PAs tried to corral us back into the holding area, but we ducked inside a classroom, where we could view the filming outside. Which mostly consisted of the boys running around in their short shorts and tight t-shirts and kicking a soccer ball. Hell, we could do that during a Sunday soccer game and have a cocktail to go with.
But the food! The food has been delicious.
As parents, we are the last in line for lunch, and if there's nothing left by then, we miss out. We've hovered and paced the hallway like hungry cougers. We've had to wait for for the cast and crew to get their second and third helpings before we've been allowed to eat.
And damn! They've served many different kinds of salads, cold salads, fresh mozzarella (yum), lamb chops, turkey, ribs, chicken, pasta, salmon...and it's been good! Not like the buffet at your cousin's wedding. We try to restrain ourselves so as not to appear greedy, but I suppose we look like hungry moms, eagerly wolfing down anything that's not nailed down.
Food always tastes better when someone else makes it for you.
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So, what do you and the other moms talk about?
H.
(you know, in-between bites)
The usual mom stuff. At the other set, we rigged up the church DVD player and watched Shooter, another movie with Mark Wahlberg. One of the kids there was in that.
I go back and forth between gabbing and working, so. I'm kind of a bore.
I-was-ho-ping-for-some-can-dee!
You're a naughty boy, Spritle!
It's almost obscene how important food is to the movie - and even just tv ad - making machine. Our :30 second commercials take at least 14 hours to shoot during which they must consume breakfast, morning snack occupying 3-4 tables, lunch for which it takes about 2 hours to make sure you got to try everything and afternoon snack which looks like a wine and cheese event without the wine. No wonder it costs so much!
I guess it's a necessity for the talent and crew, not so much so for the parents, but we were very grateful. We knew they didn't want to waste the leftovers, so we stuffed our pockets with whatever was transportable: cake, cookies, rolls, wings...and called it dinner that night.
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