“I’m off to go finish my death scene. It’s my last night of shooting.”
“What? Wait, you die in this movie? How do you die?” St. Mary asked.
“Well, I die mid-coitus… but I’m not sure exactly what the coroner would say on my post-mortem report.” I replied. “Perhaps accidental orgasm overdose.”
“What kind of movie is this again?”
“It’s the kind that they’re going to burn a bunch of cd’s of and sell out of the trunk of a car on a corner next to an elementary school.”
‘Okay, well – have fun!” She said as I walked out the front door.
We’ve been filming for four weeks and the camaraderie and personalities have jelled a lot since our first meetings. Last night as I arrived we immediately fell in to bantering and dorking around which made it hard to keep a straight face when I was supposed to be dead. The blood was a mixture of syrup and food coloring and a little alka-seltzer to make it bubble. When my moment came, I sucked a mouthful of the blood mixture in my mouth and popped an alka-seltzer in with it.
I’d been directed to let the foam come pouring out of my mouth, but you spend a lifetime making sure you don’t drool – so even though my cheeks were stretching and my eyes started to water – I had a hard time letting it ooze out! I ultimately swallowed quite a bit of it and spent the rest of the night bloated and belching.
All in all, dying on film was not too bad. A little ridiculous and farcical and well – fun. In fact I laughed way too much.
After washing up we moved to Mt. Tabor Park where I dressed up as one of the demons in a black suit and stood in a circle with five other people from the film. We were on the basketball court around the Nike symbol where the director was setting up lights and doing camera stuff. I’m not sure how it started, who threw the first song out, but eventually since no one could see out of their mask, we started singing Karaoke songs. Six demons in a circle in the middle of the night singing “Brick House” and “Love Shack”. God, what I would have given to see some ambling bum come stumbling onto a scene like that.
Chased out of the park at midnight I actually made it home from a night shoot by 1am. Sweet! Today I was tired, but smiled all morning. I’ve had such a good time doing this project. As soon as it’s available for viewing – I will let you know.
But I’ve decided, when it’s time to go, mid-coitus is my first choice for an exit plan.
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