I've realized that I said this would be a 6-part series, but really its going to be around 12 parts. I wanted to describe each episode as its own part. I have the power to do that through the blog-master license I received at the BMV a while back.
After the first half of the pilot shoot day was spent at Rosa's in her bathroom (you see? I'm even jumping back in time. Blog-master license) we high-tailed it over to a garage where my brothers and I lived at the time on Abbot Kinney in Venice. The beauty part about shooting in this garage was that we didn't need to dress it up at all. It was packed full of shit we just moved aside to make space for a poker table and plopped in our actors.
Luckily the area of action was all centered around the poker table so it made our shotlist fairly simple. But the continuity issue with the playing cards was a whole other unforeseen issue. Our props master Aaron was racing around picking up discarded, tequila-soaked cards while Tyler and Marcus did their best to remember which cards they had in their hands each round. It was madness. Speaking of Marcus, what an amazing find.
Kevin knew Marcus Nel-Jamal Hamm from work and brought him to audition for the part of Lonnie. We needed someone imposing but who wouldn't over play the comedy of the role, we needed someone to be REAL. He won us over in the audition and proved to be the right choice on the day, playing Lonnie flawlessly.
Our props master Aaron had procured some fake pot that is supposedly safe to smoke for actors, but holy shit it felt like inhaling a burning broom that just had a witch's ass riding on it. Kudos to Kevin and Josh for taking it down take after take. Well done fellas.
By the end of the day we had two episodes in the can. Marcus, who was the only non-Nomad in the shoot, performed so well that we knew that if this pilot went to series, it wouldn't be the last time we saw his character Lonnie...
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