TheWireTheWireTheWire: Who is your favorite character?

[Dorvid Barnas]

I am officially in!  They told me it was for the series finale!

[does a little troll dance in his basement apartment]

[Emily]

Congrats!

[crazy nickname]

No love for Bunny Colvin?

[senorcorazon]

Oh dear sweet Bunny and his bright ideas for changing the world... I kept fearing that he would be like the detective in the McBain bit in the Simpsons who kept talking about how he was going to retire in a week and live with his wife on their boat called the "Live Forever" before getting gunned down.

And I'm changing mine to tie between Brother "Elijiah Mohamed meets Clint Eastwood" Mazzone and "Soulful Marvin Gaye released from Prison on a Moral Journey" Cutty.

[Dorvid Barnas]

Just got back!  It was awesome - all expectations exceeded.  That's all I have to say on the matter until May(?)

[Chris L]

Guess what:  the ad reappeared on craigslist and I'm in for tomorrow! 

I don't know what they'll have me doing yet but they want to use my car.  I hope I'm not just driving around, I'll be missing a meeting for this.  But if you see a Ford Escort with a WFMU bumper sticker in the series finale, it'll be mine. 

[Sarah]

Can you stick Ted Knight on your bumper as well, just to give us all even more of a thrill?

[senorcorazon]

What role would Ted Knight be? New Police Commissioner? Junkie? Out of town mafia?

I vote for Brother Mazzone style hired gun.

[Dorvid Barnas]

Jeez, Chris L. - DC, FOT, PFT, The Wire, and now this?!


my current whip.

We should either become best friends or fight to the death.

I'm so glad you're driving up for that.  Let's chat about it privately, bouncing back and forth between giggly star-effing and a serious discussion of what it was like to spend a day in East Baltimore with a lot of downtime to look around and reflect on that.  For me, the day was: moment of fun --> moment of heart-breaking reality --> tiny water --> repeat every five minutes. And I was wearing a Kevlar vest, which, if you have a gut, SUCKS.  It was truly a surreal experience, unforgettable more for the non-show-biz stuff. One can certainly see why all of the people who work on that show are so stone-faced in interviews - holy moley.

Also, be sure to Mapquest the address.  The directions the Pat Moran website gave me were inaccurate, and I made it with only 4 minutes to spare.  Finally, a lot of people had cameras and no one seemed to care.

Edit: Ok, so I didn't seal my lips, after all, but I'm still not spoiling anything.

[Chris L]

Still no details until tomorrow morning, other than that it's now an evening shoot, which monkeys with some other plans I had for the day.  The whole thing could still fall through, depending on what they want me to do, so it's a good thing I shot my mouth off! 

[Dorvid Barnas]

The whole thing could still fall through, depending on what they want me to do

Let me clarify: you do it, best friends; don't do it, fight to death.

Seriously, if they're interested in the make and model of you car, it might be featured somehow.   Maybe Herc will commandeer you!  How cool would that be?

Come on.*



*Come on.

[erika]

Just got back!  It was awesome - all expectations exceeded.  That's all I have to say on the matter until May(?)

Did you get to shoot the nail gun? Huh huh huh???

(Let us know which episode when it gets closer... that sounds great)

[Jouster]

Just got back!  It was awesome - all expectations exceeded.  That's all I have to say on the matter until May(?)

Did you get to shoot the nail gun? Huh huh huh???

(Let us know which episode when it gets closer... that sounds great)

'ey yo, he said series finale already.

[Chris L]

Well, my experience was a tad different than Dorvid's.  When they said they wanted to use my car, they meant it.  Shockingly, they didn't have much use for a pasty white guy in the neighborhoods where they were filming.  You might see a flash of my spindly arm in traffic when the series finale airs but that's about it.  There were three scenes shot, one of which was in a park where I was too far away to tell what was going on.  Unlike Dorvid, I'll dish about the other two and who else I saw if anyone wants to know.   

So after hanging around the set from 3:30 pm to 3:30 am (the casting folks thoughtfully didn't tell me it might run that late), I got lost driving home a couple of times, stopped off @ my apt to freshen up, then drove 2 1/2 hours more to my mom's house where I'm dogsitting this weekend.  I'm officially wiped out for the day.

[Dorvid Barnas]

Yikes, Chris L.  I hope there were a few highlights mixed in with that grind.  At least you got some overtime pay out of it, and I hope you weren't kept in your car and away from the food truck the whole time.  Hopefully when the grogginess lifts, you'll be glad you did it.  Get any photos?