This
was my fourth day on set. This day was a little crazy and little funny.
There were two different sets, (well usually there are) but this time I got
to work on both. I arrived at base camp at 6:30 am. Usually this is where
I would go and get my wardrobe and props. But this day, I wasn’t a C.O. or
anything specific. I was just a regular person. So I had brought my own
clothes. I did get a suitcase from them to use though. So I went directly to
catering and had breakfast and a ton of coffee. I just sat around and shot the bull
until it time to head out. I had my coffee and breakfast next to Paul
Adelstein aka Special Agent Paul Kellerman. Paul was a really cool guy and
a pleasure to talk to.
About
an hour later I was walking to my car and noticed Paul sitting in his car.
I walked by and he started talking to me. We chatted a few minutes and
then I asked him if I could get a picture of him and get
an autograph. He said “Sure man, do you have a photo or something?” I said
“It’s in my car, let me go get it”. So I brought it back and he signed it
as well as signing my index card (which he put the wrong date on lol) and
let me take a picture of him. I said thank you so much. He said “No
problem at all man” and then one of the P.A’s came and got him to take him
to set. So I went back over to base camp and waited to be taken to the set
myself.
We
loaded up in the van and they drove us over to Union Station in downtown Dallas.
Union Station in Dallas, Texas was temporarily filling in for a bus depot in
Tribune, Kansas. This is where the first set was at. If you look carefully in
the episode, you can see newspaper machine inside the station where they just
put a black piece of tape through the word “Quick”. The Quick at the time was a
small free newspaper the Dallas Morning News gave out. I did half a day here.
We did a lot of exterior shots. Most of which did not make it on the show. The
main shots were in the inside of the station though. At the station I worked
with Wade Williams and Matt DeCaro aka Captain Brad Bellick and C.O. Roy
Geary from Fox River. Wade remembered me from past shootings and we shook
hands and talked for a couple minutes between takes. I complimented him on
his blog that he was writing for the TV Guide website. He seemed really
proud of it and was happy that I was reading it. After that we filmed
some additional exterior shots in the back of the station with just me,
another guy, Brad, & Matt. They ended up cutting those scenes out of the
final show. That was most of the day.
Then
around four o'clock in the afternoon we headed to the D/FW Airport. D/FW
was supposed to be O’Hare Airport in Chicago. There we worked with Paul Adelstein
aka Special Agent Kellerman. That was the funny part I had mentioned at the
beginning. We had most of one of the terminals shut down for filming. But there
was still a little section that was still operating. All the workers
would stop dead in their tracks to watch us film. This one guy came in the
door and one of the assistants told him we were filming and to go another
way. He got real mad and stormed off. He went past me dropping f-bomb
after f-bomb. Then he went and got in line to be checked in. what happens
next would really set him off. He really got pissed when he found out the
line he was in was all actors. That was karma biting him in the butt for
being such a jerk.
So
we shot for a couple more hours including a scene with the character MariCruz.
In the show MariCruz was Sucre’s girlfriend. The normal woman who played
MariCruz could not reprise her role at the time. So they replaced her with
another person. We filmed a couple scenes with her then called it a day. A
little over thirteen tiring hours, and I can't wait to do it again. A lot
was filmed and even more was cut out (the entire MariCruz scene was cut).
But that’s ok. Even if I do get cut out again.
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