A DAY IN THE LIFE- Day 1

Car arrived at 6:30am. My pickup time was 7. He was EARLY!! And GOD that's early. Concerned (and surprised), I called the AD who said "just make him wait; you don't have to get into that car until you're ready." Wow. That was weird. Well, you know I was gonna milk this one! Besides, I knew it wouldn't take an hour and 1/2 to get to Harriman State Park. One of the benefits of being the only local cast member. They get the out of town per diem (that's daily allowance to live on, for you non-industry folk) and I get extra sleep.

Call time was 8am at Sebago Lake in Harriman. (A place I've been hiking for years--who'd have thought?) Upon arriving I was greeted by a variety of crew people all with walkie talkies confirming that "Sadie has arrived" and "can we get a check on the hair?" (which had just been dyed red. Very red). Breakfast orders were being taken for the cast and when I asked what my options were I was told "anything." Impressive. After coming too a little more, I ordered an egg white omelet with "all the veggies you've got." I'll be damned if they didn't whip up an amazing egg and veggie masterpiece. I can't think of a vegetable that wasn't in it. This was prepared a mile up the road in the "hot food truck."

Then I wandered around waiting for my call to go to "make up." Found a hiking trail and got a good 10 minutes into it, only to hear my name reverberating through the woods. Hustled back up and was very politely told that it's best not to wander off too far. So, I went to make-up. Spent an hour getting the "natural look."

By 11 am I was told to hang tight until noon lunch break. So, I took another hike. This time much further and once again my name rumbled through the forest. I returned to find the place completely deserted except for the poor PA who got stuck looking for me in the woods. I didn't realize that lunch was at the location a few miles up the road (where naked Asian woman danced on water to the song "Across the Universe". SO cool) so they had to send another van for me. Ooops. Okay, now I get it.

The food was quite good! (and the thousands of bees and wasps MUST have agreed!) Lunch was fast. Literally. We had to walk around eating so as not to be swarmed--and I mean SWARMED--by wasps and bees.

I ate fresh snapper and a giant salad. Being in a mid drift and hip huggers made it easier to resist the carrot cake, peach cobbler, pecan pie, macaroni.... you get the idea.

By 1:00 we headed back to our trailers for more touch ups on our natural beauty (heh hem).

Then there was more waiting. One cast mate said, that Paul Newman said, that "you're not getting paid to act, but for the time you spend waiting around." Seems like. (Frankly I rather enjoyed such rare downtime! However, ask me about this in January.)

Finally at 3pm it was time to shoot our first scene (which is actually toward the end of the film). Me and my 5 castmates were led into the woods, positioned around a GIANT paper mache hand, and waited for the director to yell action so we could frolic down a hill for about 10 seconds until we heard "CUT." We did this 3 more times and by 3:30 the A.D. announced "That's a wrap" you can all go home.

Whew. Make-up is exhausting!

We changed, piled into a van and drove back to NYC tired and excited saying "holy shit, we're making a real f***ing movie."

We'll have 3 solid days/scenes with Bono next week. I think I'm going to be star struck.