Pizza in a bathroom with Karl Urban; also: that poor anakin kid.
So I was at this geek convention, right. They had actors from Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Gate, Battlestar Galactica - you get the drift. I was volunteering there with some friends. So there I was minding the autograph queue for Jake Lloyd, the guy that played Anakin Skywalker in the first Star Wars prequel. He turned out to be a nice enough dude, very philosophical about the fact that a) his line was utterly tiny compared to his neighbor Karl Urban of recent Star Trek fame, b) he was touring with his mum and c) everyone who passed by had an identical puzzled look when they saw the twenty-year-old man sitting in front of a poster of an eight-year-old boy. However, it was possibly adding insult to injury when he showed up for his Q&A and my friend Jack, who was in charge of the line at that door, stopped him and kindly explained that this was the queue for the Jake Lloyd talk and he'd have to go to the back. (She was later mortified to discover that he thought she was having a bit of a joke, as opposed to totally failing to recognise him.)

Later that day, us vollies were fed with pizza (extremely LATE pizza, that was a hungry day :P) which was laid out on a table in a sort of cloakroom/bathroom thing behind the registration desk. Imagine our surprise when we walk in to find Karl Urban himself hanging out in the bathroom and eating our pizza. It turned out to be a bit of a grass-is-greener situation with the leetle sandwiches provided to the guests in the green room. We were about that sick of the pizza by the end, but sadly us filching THEIR food was not an option.
(Lieutenant Colonel Oblivious brought to you by intravenous sugar, Fri 9 Oct 2009, 6:53, 1 reply)

Serves the little git right.
My missus worked for about 10 years as an extra in various guises and managed to get a job on Phantom Menace - specifically on the final Naboo celebration scenes.

As most of you can imagine, there were only around 20 - 30 actual people filmed as a crowd before they were slavishly replicated fifty squillion times in post production.

Apparently it was a good day, with good food and surprisingly good quality costuming and make-up for the extras.

The day was marred only by one little turd of an actor who decided that whilst not filming, throwing stones at the extras was an acceptable and worthwhile use of his time, giggling as he did as he was safe in the knowledge that as 'the Talent' he could do whatever the hell he wanted without repercussions.

Complaints to production staff fell on deaf ears and quite a few of the extras left that day with sizable bruises on arms and legs from the little twunt's exercise in twattery.

Every so often she checks IMDB and laughs at the fact that she's done more pro work as background scum (her words) than he's managed.

Having said that, she was completely underwhelmed at the fact she was in a Star Wars film (albeit a shitty one) so maybe she was less deserving of sympathy...

She's a goldmine of celeb meetings so I may pinch a few for my own post.
(cliftos2000, Fri 9 Oct 2009, 12:07, closed)