Back From a Film Shoot

I've been shooting a film for the past week or so. It's a low-budget indie film, a story about a neat-freak, socially-awkward girl with OCD who lives with a wild party-girl roommate. Sara, my character--the OCD one--finds that she has feelings for her roommate even though they drive each other crazy--and part of her journey is coming to terms with the fact that she has feelings for another woman.

This role is something like playing Laura in The Glass Menagerie, which I did a couple of years ago in Philadelphia--it's a character who doesn't speak much, but feels a great deal and is extremely sensitive--the kind of character who has monologues with her eyes. I love this sort of part. I love the sensitivity, the significance of every indrawn breath. I love getting lost in emotions and forgetting the camera is there.

Yesterday we started filming at 10 in the morning and didn't stop til 7 AM this morning--I'm pretty sure that goes against union rules, but this job isn't union. I had the rest of Saturday off--I spent most of it napping, with a few pauses to make spring rolls and read a bit. By the time this post goes up, I'll have wrapped it on Sunday, unless something goes wrong. Which I hope nothing does. If it's OK with the director, I'll put up either clips or the whole movie once I get my copy.