Friday, September 26, 2008

Whew..that was exhausting

HEY YOU...YEAH YOU, THE ONE COMING OVER HERE FROM fishbiscuitland.com and evangeline-lilly.net; how'd ya get here? Leave me a comment and tell me about your journey-I'm curious :)

Magoo did his first day on LOST!!! We had sooo much fun, it was an amazing experience. First we were escorted to his trailer on the grounds of the Hawaii Film Studio. He is obsessed with talking about the trailer, it is hysterical!

Once we settled in there we were whisked away to hair and make-up!!! If you know the Magoo then you can imagine this was the favorite part of his day!!!

Then it was back to the trailer to wait for the call to move to our shooting location. Magoo and Ms. Patrice (our nurse, nanny, assistant person) read books and colored while we waited.


The scene he was in was filmed at the Sheraton Waikiki in Honolulu on th 31st floor penthouse suite. I cannot divulge any info so don't try to twist my arm :)

If you look really close at that pic on the far right hand side is a woman in a pencil skirt and dark top; that is Evangeline Lilly. I probably spelled her name wrong...sorry!

While we waited to be called for the shot we played cars, football, Leapster and entertained people. This is Ms. Tiffany the production assistant assigned to "keep us in line" :)


There was alot of downtime while they reset scenes, moved props, etc. so the "Aaron's" played together. There was quite a bit of football and running involved.

Magoo's shot is of him sitting at a table eating. Well, all the food had been there for AWHILE and was cold/soggy/icky. He was supposed to eat french fries dipped in ketchup. The assistant director told me what he wanted him to do and I explained to Magoo. They set the shot and yelled rolling.....action! Not 3 seconds in Magoo is shouting across the room that the fries are cold! ACK!!! Ok, no worries. I tell him it is okay, just pretend, yadda yadda yadda. Take 2-rolling....action! About 7 seconds in "I can't reach the milk!" I'm thinking they are gonna kick us out?! Ms. Lilly (did I mention how WONDERFUL she is?!) went right over and adjusted the table so he could reach the milk. Okay, try again Take-3 rolling.....action! UGH, one of the extras messed something up and Magoo got it right! On Take-4 I told the AD that Magoo might do better if he could eat the watermelon that was on the plate. The AD said as long as he doesn't talk he can eat whatever he wants, LOL! So, he ate watermelon, everyone hit their marks and it was done!

Here is a pic of Magoo and Ms. Lilly post shoot


It was a fabulous time and Magoo said he had fun! Apparently it was okay that it took us 4 tries to get the scene done because they called us back for 2 more days next!!!

10 comments:

lyly ford said...

Hi, i found this link in ELF :) thanks so much i love the picture with evie and the new aaron, it seem more older than the other before
glad you'v had fun too :)
kiss
lyly

john (not lennon) said...

Hi, I'm from Ireland, followed a link from DarkUFO, was getting my Lost fix. :D

Lovely photos, must be a great experience for you and your son.
He did well to get it in so few takes, I have 3 children so I know how difficult that can be.

Well done.
All the best with the next scenes.
John.

Anonymous said...

Oh, what a great story! And the kid did good, 4 takes is nothing;)

Harter Family said...

Exciting!! Keep the photos coming!

Aloha! said...

Looks like an awesome day!! :) He did great it sounds like! Keep me posted!

Francesca said...

aw he's SO cute!

Kitchens said...

Thanks for sharing what looked like so much fun! Your little "Magoo" is darling. :)

Linda said...

Arrived via DarkUFO. Looks like you were having fun. Hipe you don't mind, I poked around your site and am envious that you live in Hawaii surrounded by all that beautiful scenery. I live in semi-desert, surrounded by burnt trees and tinder dry mountains.

Anonymous said...

YOU'RE AWESOME,SWEET AND ADORABLE ...YOU DID GREAT JOB DON'T WORRY..! MAKING FILM IS A HUGE THING FOR ALL OF US, AND AS YOU SAID AN "EXHAUSTING WORK", BUT THE PRODUCTION,THE CREW ARE USED TO ...SO ...BRAVO LADY...!!!!!
"MAGOO" BE SURE YOU'LL MAKE YOUR WAY IN THIS INDUSTRTY SOMEDAY... WHO KNOWS ...?... KISSES ( YOU'RE ALREADY A HERO FROM LOST ;).....
FARAH A WOMAN FROM ALGERIA

Anonymous said...

Hey, i found your site through DarkUFO, I run a website on child actor/ress' and would love to include your son in Aaron's part. Would it be ok if i used some of his photo's from set?