I’m sure the last place my crew wanted to see this morning was a bar. Poor Sean was obviously hurting more than a little and everyone was a tired… jet lag + first night in the city + tequila = no early morning call. It turned out to be a blessing that we were shooting only the bar scene during the morning. We set up our corner of the bar, ordered in and cruised through the scene at our own pace. Our Hell’s Angel turned out to be a no show, so our DP stepped in to play the role. MS Fashions next door provided us with a glorious leather vest for him to wear and Cooper found the perfect headgear…five shots of whiskey later and he looked and sounded the part.

We took a nice break in high spirits. Most folks went back to the apartment to nap and relax before our next couple of scenes…on the subway. We couldn’t stress too much about continuity and sound, we just went for it. Sean fit all of his gear into his bookbag so he could stay close to the scene and in the event camera picked him up, he would just look like a bystander…Knights of the Guild keep your eyes peeled in the subway scenes for a Sean Sighting. The first scene with our homeless guy went fantastic. James David Jackson’s beard did all the work for him…absolutely hysterical!

However, midway through shooting, Erik’s bag went missing. Someone had lifted it while we were shooting the scene. Understandably, he was upset…as were most people…not only because his stuff was gone, but a lot of us put our own belongings in his bag (small things, you know, like the shooting script and the tripod). Erik was a champ and said we should keep filming and went on to knock the opening scene out of the park. We returned to the apartment exhausted, thankfully with all our shots. Erik has a prior commitment and will be leaving us in the morning. I feel awful that he got a bad taste of New York, but if we get a Season 2, I will make it up to him!!!