This morning I flopped onto the floor like a beached whale, because it was 7 AM, that's oh-seven-hundred. Normally I wouldn't be up at this time on a Saturday, or any other day for that matter, but today I was shooting a short film I wrote, my final project for my video editing class.
At 7:55, with Bojangles in hand, I make it to the parking lot where I'm supposed to meet my crew and talent. Talent meaning one who has talent. My actors, essentially, although they aren't actors. They're skateboarders, so that's their talent, I guess.
Malerie (crew) is there at 8. Thomas (crew) follows in minutes. Finally, Tiffany (crew) arrives a few minutes later. Then I receive a text saying Ben (talent) hurt himself last night, and Adam (talent) has a stomach ache so bad he can't move. Michael (talent), the guy who sent me the text, didn't answer his phone. Johnny (talent), their normal cameraman, didn't answer his phone, either. Everyone who is actually supposed to be ON camera, rather than behind it, is MIA. Maybe we should stop calling them 'talent.'
I know I'm not the only person who feels this way. The most I'll say is that I hate needing talent to make my ideas happen. While we were waiting, Thomas said "I hate actors." My instructor Rusty has also said "I hate actors." Thomas told me Alfred Hitchcock said "actors are cattle," so I checked on it. He did say that. Hitchcock also said:
"Disney has the best casting. If he (Walt Disney) doesn't like an actor he just tears him up."
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
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